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Life is a Dream - Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics) - cover

Life is a Dream - Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

Pedro Calderón

Verlag: Nick Hern Books

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Beschreibung

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.

Life is a Dream is considered 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.


'the star of the festival -- John Clifford's translation reclaims a Spanish masterpiece for the modern stage' - Guardian
Verfügbar seit: 01.07.2015.
Drucklänge: 125 Seiten.

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