Life's a Dream (<i>La Vida Es Sueño</i>)Co-Winner of the 2004 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize. A beautiful and haunting tale of love, betrayal, knowledge, and power, Life's a Dream (La vida es sueño, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Calderón's long life (1600-1681) witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of Spanish classical literature. Despite its longtime place atop the Hispanic canon, Calderón's masterpiece remains relatively unknown by general readers outside the Spanish-speaking world. Michael Kidd's new prose translation aims to correct this deficiency by rendering the play into a transparent, modern American idiom that preserves the beauty and complexity of Calderón's Baroque Spanish. The result is a highly readable and adaptable text that is enhanced by a generous selection of supporting materials, including a thorough critical introduction and glossary. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
TRANSLATORS NOTES | 41 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR DIRECTORS | 71 |
Copyright | |
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AISTULF amid Astraea Barca Barcelona Baroque beast beauty Bibliography BUGLE Bulletin of Hispanic Calderón century character Clorilyn CLOTHOLD Comedia Comediantes crown death dishonor doubt drama English Enter CLOTHOLD Enter ROSSAURA Enter VASILY española Exit fate father feet flee García give Greek Haza hippogriff Hispanic Studies honor human José Juan kill king La vida es lady Life's a Dream listen locket Long live Sigismund Lope Lope de Vega lord loyalty Mac-Carthy Madrid miserable misfortunes mountains Muscovy Offstage palace Pedro Calderón play play's poetry Poland prince prince's prison Real Academia Española Rebel Soldier Renaissance rhyme ROSSAURA Ruano scene Segismundo SERVANT SIGISMUND Siglo de Oro sleep soul Spain Spanish Spanish poetry stage stars STELLA sword teatro del Siglo tell theater there's tion Tirso de Molina tower translators University Press unlucky valor Vasily's verse vida es sueño woman wordplay