A beautiful and haunting tale of love, betrayal, knowledge, and power, Life"s a Dream (La vida es sueA±o, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe"s greatest dramatist, Pedro CalderA?n de la Barca. CalderA?n"s long life (1600-1681) witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the great flowering of Spanish classical literature.
Despite its longtime place atop the Hispanic canon, CalderA?n"s masterpiece remains relatively unknown by general readers outside the Spanish-speaking world. Michael Kidd"s new prose translation aims to correct this deficiency by rendering the play into a transparent, modern American idiom that preserves the beauty and complexity of CalderA?n"s Baroque Spanish. The result is a highly readable and adaptable text that is enhanced by a generous selection of supporting materials, including a thorough critical introduction and glossary. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Lifes A Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)