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Life is a Dream
Pedro Calderón
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Description for Life is a Dream
Paperback. A masterpiece from one of the great dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Translator(s): Edmundson, Helen. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.
'If I'm asleep, don't let me wake. If this is real, don't let me dream.'
To protect the country from the horrors prophesied, the young Prince Segismundo is condemned for all eternity to be shut away from his country and his birthright. Banished to a secret world high in the mountains and cut off from the sun, he can only dream of a life reversed: of palaces, empires, freedom – revenge…
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848420601
SKU
V9781848420601
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Ref
99-5
About Pedro Calderón
Helen Edmundson's first play, Flying, was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, she adapted Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Shared Experience, for whom she also adapted The Mill on the Floss in 1994. Both won awards – the TMA and the Time Out Awards respectively – and both productions were twice revived and extensively toured. ... Read more
Reviews for Life is a Dream
'Rich, haunting drama... one of the great works of the Spanish golden age, yet it also seems to look forward to such modern dramatic concerns as the flexible nature of reality and the possibility of freedom in a world apparently governed by fate'
Daily Telegraph
'Extraordinary and fascinating... a superb adaptation by Helen Edmundson'
Sunday Times
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Daily Telegraph
'Extraordinary and fascinating... a superb adaptation by Helen Edmundson'
Sunday Times
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