Life is a Dream by Pedro Caldern De La Barca

Life is a Dream by Pedro Caldern De La Barca

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age.

It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as a result, is incarcerated once more. Sigismund persuades himself that all that has passed is a dream and emerges to rule wisely and justly.

Pedro Calderon's play Life is a Dream was first published in 1635. This English translation by Jo Clifford was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1998. It is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

'The star of the festival… John Clifford's translation reclaims a Spanish masterpiece for the modern stage'

* Guardian *

Pedro Calderón (1600–1681) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is recognised as one of the greatest Spanish playwrights of the golden age. Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s. She is the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. They include: Losing Venice, Every One, Faust and The Tree of Knowledge. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London’s West End.

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ISBN 13	9781854591883
ISBN 10	1854591886
Title	Life is a Dream
Author	Pedro Caldern De La Barca
Series	Drama Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	1998-08-13
Number of pages	125
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