Alexander A. Parker
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LOCATION: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 1970–78. Author of The Allegorical Drama of Calderón and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age. Among his best-known secular dramas are El médico de su honra (1635; The Surgeon of His Honour), La vida es sueño (1635; Life Is a Dream), El alcalde de Zalamea (c.…
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