Life Is a Dream
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About This Book
Life Is a Dream is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama". The story focuses on the fictional Segismundo, Prince of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower by his father, King Basilio, following a dire prophecy that the prince would bring disaster to the country and death to the King. Basilio briefly frees Segismundo, but when the prince goes on a rampage, the king imprisons him again, persuading him that it was all a dream.
Chapters (15)
- LIFE IS A DREAM
- Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- LIFE IS A DREAM
- ACT I
- SCENE I—A pass of rocks, over which a storm is rolling away,
- and the sun setting: in the foreground, half-way down, a fortress.
- SCENE II.—The Palace at Warsaw
- ACT II
- SCENE I—A Throne-room in the Palace. Music within.
- ACT III.
- SCENE I.—The Tower, etc., as in Act I. Scene I.
- ACT IV.
- SCENE I.—A wooded pass near the field of battle:
- drums, trumpets, firing, etc. Cries of 'God save Basilio! Segismund,' etc.
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