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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. In them Calderón brought the tradition of the medieval morality play to a high degree of artistic perfection.
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. Don W. Cruickshank and a number of other critics believe that the play can be dated around 1630, thus making ...
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- 1961
Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish Golden Age playwright who — from the beginning of his theatrical career in the 1620s to his death in 1681 — wrote about 120 comedias and about 80 autos sacramentales. [1] About 40 of these have been translated into English, at least three during Calderón's own lifetime; La vida es sueño ( Life is a Dream ), "a work many hold to be the supreme ...
Auto sacramental, (Spanish: “sacramental act”), Spanish dramatic genre that reached its height in the 17th century with autos written by the playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Performed outdoors as part of the Corpus Christi feast day celebrations, autos were short allegorical plays in verse.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
plays relating directly to the Eucharist, and later into the "s Autos sacramentales.". It remained for Calderon to give to these one-act sacramental plays that puire, perfect, and exclusive form which has made them 'im mortal as works of art.
May 21, 2024 · Pedro Calderon de la Barca, dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.
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The famous play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca was first presented to the public in 1635. Created in the heyday of Spanish literature, it became one of the iconic works of its era. In it the playwright most fully revealed the true essence of human existence and nature. And he helped him in this, he developed a genre of religious and philosophical drama.
