Research Catalog

Title

Calderón de la Barca : four great plays of the golden age / Calderón de la Barca ; translated by Rick Davis.

Author

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681

Publication

Hanover, N.H. : Smith & Kraus, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Davis, Rick.

Description

vii, 288 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Calderon De La Barca (1600-1681) - by most accounts the greatest playwright of a great era, the luminous siglo de oro or Spanish Golden Age - remains best known in the English-speaking world for one play, Life Is a Dream. Like any truly great artist, however, Calderon's brilliance is impossible to understand through a single work. His range of subject, style, and tonality is vast, encompassing tragedy, metaphysics, romantic comedy, honor, illusion, reality, and religion. This group of plays demonstrates the scope of his achievement, in accessible, accurate, production-tested translations. Equally at home in the classroom or the theater, these texts bring a major playwright to life for English-speaking audiences."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Great translations for actors series

Uniform Title

• Plays. Selections. English
• Great translations for actors series

Alternative Title

• Plays.
• Four great plays of the golden age
• 4 great plays of the golden age

Subject

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Drama

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The phantom lady (1629) -- The constant prince (1629) -- Life is a dream (1636) -- The great theater of the world (1648).

ISBN

• 9781575255965 (pbk.)
• 1575255960 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008939883

OCLC

• 216940954
• SCSB-12319887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library