Life Is a Dream
play by Calderón
Also known as: “La vida es sueño”
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Eastern and Western literature
- In comedy: Divine comedies in the West and East
…Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream (1635) is an example; on the operatic stage, so is Mozart’s Magic Flute (1791), in spirit and form so like Shakespeare’s Tempest, to which it has often been compared. In later drama, Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf (1894) and August Strindberg’s To…
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Spanish literature
- In Spanish literature: The plays of Calderón
…La vida es sueño (1635; Life Is a Dream), a masterpiece that explores escaping from life’s confusion to awareness of reality and self-knowledge.
Read More - In Western theatre: Spain’s Golden Age
…La vida es sueño (1635; Life Is a Dream).
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