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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Calderón
also: Calderón, Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), Spanish Golden Age playwright; his La vida es sueño ('Life Is a Dream') supplied the 'double life' theme central to Madách's 'Poet's Dream' cycle.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §28 Calderón
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), Spanish Golden Age playwright; his play La vida es sueño ('Life Is a Dream') — about a prince who cannot distinguish dream from reality — is the direct source of the 'double life' motif in this poem cycle.