Life is a Dream

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Nick Hern Books, 1998 - Drama - 101 pages

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 John Clifford was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1998. It is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

About the author (1998)

John Clifford (now known as Jo Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. As John Clifford, he was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s.

Bibliographic information

TitleLife is a Dream
Volume 33 of Drama classics
YSD production scripts
AuthorPedro Calderón de la Barca
Translated byJohn Clifford
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherNick Hern Books, 1998
ISBN1854591886, 9781854591883
Length101 pages
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Drama / Ancient & Classical
Drama / General
  
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