Life is a Dream
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an e...
Life Is a Dream
A 17th-century allegory, which explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.
El principe constante
First published in 1957 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume is the second edition of a 1938 original. The book contains the original Spanish text of El príncipe constante, together with a short editorial introduction in Englis...
Vida Es Sueno/Life is a Dream
Exploring the conflict between free will and predestination, Calderon's most famous play tells of Segismundo, a Polish prince, imprisoned at birth by his father, the King, to thwart the predictions of astrologers. The dual-language edition feature...
