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Only the apprehension of an “infinite Good” can assuage the restlessness of men. This religious philosophy is given its most moving expression, in terms of Christian dogma, in the autos sacramentales. Seventy-six of these allegorical plays, written for open-air performance on the Feast of Corpus Christi, are extant.
The second section treats nine plays individually, adding a valuable bibliography and handy index. Contains a chronology with English play titles. Hesse, Everett W. Calderón de la Barca. Boston ...
The Spanish poet and playwright Pedro Calderón dela Barca y Henao (1600-1681) is second only to Lope de Vega in Spain's Golden Age, 1580-1680. He used the stage to interpret and champion Catholicism, to battle the Reformation, and to exalt the monarchy. Born in Madrid on Jan. 17, 1600, Pedro Calderón was orphaned by the age of 15.
And he helped him in this, he developed a genre of religious and philosophical drama. “Life is a Dream” is a play of three “hornadas” (action). The word “Hornada” has Spanish roots and means “a person’s life journey, taken in a day.”. The artistic time of the drama consists of just three days: on the first (Segismundo – a ...
Dramas of Calderon, Tragic, Comic, and Legendary, Vol 2 at the Internet Archive. imitative verse; revised version published in Calderon’s Dramas (1873) La Banda y la Flor. The Scarf and the Flower. 1853. Mac-Carthy, Denis Florence. Dramas of Calderon, Tragic, Comic, and Legendary, Vol 2 at the Internet Archive.
Oct 7, 2022 · In El alcalde de Zalamea [The Mayor of Zalamea, early 1640s] the daughter of a rich peasant is brutally raped by an army officer and must end her days in a convent. According to the traditional approach, the honour code explains why these plays worked as they did and why they end as they do. In his dictionary of 1611 Sebastián de Covarrubias ...
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May 21, 2024 · This play in two parts dramatizes the legend of Semiramis (the warrior queen of Babylon whose greed for political power led her to conceal and impersonate her son on his accession). It is often considered Calderón’s masterpiece.
