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Life Is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño [la ˈβiða es ˈsweɲo]) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, in two different editions, the first in Madrid and a second one in Zaragoza.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- 1961
Overview. La vida es sueño, or, Life’s a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is one of Spain’s most well-known plays. First published and first produced in 1636, during the heyday of Spain’s golden age of literature, Life is a Dream is a play in verse that intertwines a complex family drama with a tale of honor and vengeance. The play ...
Along with philosophical questions about the meaning of life, the play “Life is a Dream” raises the problem of fate and its overcoming by the power of free will. King Basilio, frightened by the terrible dreams of his pregnant wife and the predictions of astrologers, decides to put his newborn son in prison.
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play Life is a Dream explores the conflict between fate and free will. Fate, or destiny, assumes that one’s life follows a predetermined path that can’t be altered through individual choices or actions.
Calderón repeatedly blurs the line between dreams and reality, which begins immediately with Rosaura’s hippogriff. The mythical creature—which is half horse, half bird—makes the play seem dreamlike and unrealistic, and it is impossible to ascertain if Rosaura’s experience constitutes reality or a dream.
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Life is a Dream. TO: Don Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch; poet, dramatist, novelist, and critic, the most illustrious of living Spanish writers, this translation into English imitative verse of Calderon's most famous drama, is inscribed, with the esteem and regard of the author. Characters: BASILIUS, King of Poland.
