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By: Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Penguin Classics: December 2006
Seller ID: 413544
ISBN: 0143104829
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and predestination, illusion and reality, played out against the backdrop of court intrigue and the restoration of personal honor.
In the mountainous barrens of Poland, the rightful heir to the kingdom has been imprisoned since birth in an attempt by his father to thwart fate. Meanwhile,...
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