Calderon de la Barca: Six Plays
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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This volume brings together four long out-of-print Honig translations: Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult, Devotion to the Cross, The Phantom Lady, and The Mayor of Zalamea, joined by the ever popular Life is a Dream and the newly translated, never before published version of The Crown of Absalom. Six Plays will make Calderon's work available to a new generation of readers.Tags
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helpful English version of Calderon plays; three (Life is a Dream, Mayor of Zalamea, and Phantom Lady) are among his best, and best known in English. Of the others, Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult is a really nasty
revenge play with both sides equally evil, Devotion to the Cross is a grotesquely exaggerated quasi-religous play about evil bandits, and Crown of Absolom is a straghtforward religious play based on the Biblical story of David and Absalom. Honig's version of Phantom Lady is linked to the version by IASTA available on video.
revenge play with both sides equally evil, Devotion to the Cross is a grotesquely exaggerated quasi-religous play about evil bandits, and Crown of Absolom is a straghtforward religious play based on the Biblical story of David and Absalom. Honig's version of Phantom Lady is linked to the version by IASTA available on video.
Lively plays by a master playwright
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid, Spain on January 17, 1600. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid. He was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. He wrote more than 120 plays and over 70 allegorical religious plays with subjects from mythology and the Old and the New Testaments. Calderón's debut as a show more playwright was Amor, Honor y Poder, performed at the Royal Palace. His other plays include La Selva Confusa, Los Macabeos, El Magico Prodigioso, El Alcalde de Zalamea, La Vida Es Sueno, and La Estatua de Prometeo. Calderón gained popularity in the court, and was made a knight of the order of Santiago by Philip IV, who had already commissioned from him a series of plays for the royal theatre in the Buen Retiro palace. Calderón became a tertiary of the order of St Francis in 1650, and then finally joined the priesthood. He was ordained in 1651, and became a priest at San Salvador at Madrid. He was appointed honorary chaplain to Philip IV in 1663, and continued as chaplain to his successor. In his eighty-first year he wrote his last secular play, Hado y Divisa de Leonido y Marfisa, in honor of Charles II's marriage to Maria Luisa of Orléans. He died on May 25, 1681. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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