Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681) (, ; ; full name: ''Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño'') was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre. Calderón has been termed "the Spanish Shakespeare", the national poet of Spain, and one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of world literature.}}Calderón de la Barca was born into the minor Spanish nobility in Madrid, where he lived for most of his life. He served as soldier and a knight of the military and religious Order of Santiago, but later became a Roman Catholic priest. His theatrical debut was a history play about the life of King Edward III of England, was first performed on 29 June 1623 at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, during the surprise visit to Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales to negotiate for a dynastic marriage alliance with the Spanish Habsburgs.
As he continued writing verse dramas, Calderón's favorite theatrical genres included mystery plays illustrating the doctrines of Transubstantiation and the Real Presence for performance during the Feast of Corpus Christi and both comedy of intrigue and tragic theatre rooted in many of the same plot devices as Shakespeare's plays and in ethical dilemmas under the Spanish nobility's code of honour. Born while the unwritten rules of Spanish Golden Age theatre were still being defined by Lope de Vega, Calderón pushed their limits even further by introducing radical and pioneering innovations that are now termed metafiction and surrealism.
His masterpiece, ''La Vida es Sueño'' ("Life is a Dream"), combines a beauty and the beast plotline, a disguised woman reminiscent of Viola from Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night'', surrealist concepts, romantic complications, and the threat of a dynastic civil war, while exploring the philosophical question of whether each individual's fate has already been written without their involvement or if the future can be altered by free will.
Calderón's poetry and plays have since wielded an enormous global influence upon Romanticism, symbolism, literary modernism, expressionism, dystopian science fiction, and even postmodernism. His many admirers have included August Wilhelm Schlegel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dryden, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fr. Félix Sardà y Salvany, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Jorge Luis Borges, Konstantin Stanislavsky, and Boris Pasternak.
In 1881, the Royal Spanish Academy awarded a gold medal to Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy for his highly praised and accurate literary translations of Calderón's verse dramas into English. In 2021, a renewed search for Calderón's missing remains gained media attention worldwide. Provided by Wikipedia
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La vida es sueño / by Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La dama duende ; Casa de dos puertas, mala es de guardar / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 1600-1681
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La vida es un sueño by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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A secreto agravio, secreta venganza. La dama duende / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea. La vida es un sueño. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El alcalde de Zalamea / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La aurora en Copacabana / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Autos sacramentales / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Autos y loas / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Casa con dos puertas mala es de buardar. El mágico prodigioso / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar. El mágico prodigioso / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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Comedias religiosas / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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La devoción de la cruz. El gran teatro del mundo / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El gran duque de Gandía / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El mayor monstruo del mundo. El príncipe constante / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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El médico de su honra / by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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No hay burlas con el amor. El médico de su honra / Calderón de la Barca. by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
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