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Original Title:	La vida es sueño
ISBN:	8437600928 (ISBN13: 9788437600925)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Characters:	Segismundo, Rosaura, Basílio
Setting:	Poland

La vida es sueño Paperback | Pages: 207 pages

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He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo.

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Title	:	La vida es sueño
Author	:	Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 207 pages
Published	:	2001 by Cátedra (first published 1636)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Theatre. Fiction. Academic. School

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So I didn't so much read as watch this play, but I found it interesting and engaging. Pedro Calderon de la Barca is sort of the Shakespeare of Spain and I am grateful for the chance to get some exposure to his works.

I'm not usually so much impressed by theatre plays, but this one,this one was very good. I read it with so much curiosity and the plot is really interesting. It was the first Spanish theatre play I've read and I didn't expect it to impress me so much. Only Shakespeare and Dryden have done this to me before xD. When they released Segismundo and after having commited murder and threats and took him back in the tower, at that point I prefigured what will happen. I already imagined that he will

I stumbled across this play when looking for quotes relating life and dream. I found it on Gutenberg, read the first few pages, and thereafter I was charmed.Sigismund is Prince and heir to the throne of Poland. It is prophesied that he will have a violent, cruel nature and is therefore imprisoned by his father, the King, in a tower where he grows up under a caretakers guidance. The play begins when Sigismund is a young man, and the King decides to test Sigismund's nature by letting him into the

This was my second favorite out of the three plays I read these past 3 weeks. It had nice symbolism, it keeps me going, and it was really interesting. That's pretty much all I have to say about it. But, with this book, I'M DONE WITH MY ASSIGNED READINGS (for now). YES.

Sueña el rico en su riqueza,que más cuidados le ofrece;sueña el pobre que padecesu miseria y su pobreza Here is another classic play from Spains Golden Age. Calderón de la Barca is sometimes considered to be Lope de Vegas successora man who took Spanish theater in the direction of refinement and sophistication. Lope de Vegas plays, for all of their formal accoutrements, are rather simple human dramas; while Calderón was attracted to more philosophical themes. This play, his most famous, is

I read the Project Gutenberg edition that is translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy which is fabulous. He finds a unique voice for each character and maintains excellent dramatic tension throughout. He finishes with a marvelous rendition of Sigismund's monologue.

Took me forever to read this one, I kept reading short parts of it and leaving it for weeks. But it is truly beautiful and I don't think I'll ever read something that absolutely needed to be read in Spanish.