The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria / A Drama of Early Christian Rome
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca was a dramatist from the Spanish Golden Age, which occurred in the 1600's. Calderon was educated in a Jesuit college with plans to become a priest, but instead he studied law. Over two decades he wrote 70 secular plays for the commercial theatre. The Two Lovers of Heaven is a mystical drama. The martyrdom of Chrysanthus and Daria took place in Rome in 284 a. d. . According to legend, Chrysanthus was the only son of an Egyptian patrician named Polemius or Poleon. Chrysanthus became a Christian. His father tempted him with prostitutes and when he remained a virgin he a...
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- THE
- TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN:
- CHRYSANTHUS AND DARIA.
- A Drama of Early Christian Rome. FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. With Dedicatory Sonnets to LONGFELLOW,
- DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY, M.R.I.A.
- Por la Fe Moriré. Calderon's Family Motto.
- DUBLIN: JOHN F. FOWLER, 3 CROW STREET. LONDON: JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, 74 and 75 PICCADILLY. 1870.
- The Two Lovers of Heaven
- Calderon's Family Motto.
- "Por la Fe Moriré". — For the Faith welcome Death.
- D. F. M. C.
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,
- ROME, This Drama is dedicated DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY.
- TO LONGFELLOW.
- I.
- II.
- D. F. M. C.
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- THE PROFESSOR OF POETRY AT OXFORD AND THE AUTOS SACRAMENTALES OF CALDERON.
- D. F. MAC-CARTHY.
- THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN.1
- INTRODUCTION.
- THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN.
- PERSONS.
- ACT THE FIRST.
- ACT THE SECOND.
- ACT THE THIRD.
- THE SPANISH DRAMA.
- CALDERON'S DRAMAS AND AUTOS,
- From Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature. London: 1863.
- Extracts from Continental Reviews.
- From "Bläater für Literarische Unterhaltung". 1862. Erster Baude, 479 Leipzig, F. A. Brockhans.
- From "Boletin de Ferro-Carriles". Cadiz: 1862.
- Extracts from Letters addressed to the Author.
- From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Esq.
- From the Same.
- From George Ticknor, Esq., the Historian of Spanish Literature.
- From the Same.
- From the Same.
- From the first of English religious painters.
- Extracts from American and Canadian Journals.
- From an eloquent article in the "Boston Courier", March 18, 1862, written by George Stillman Hillard, Esq., the author of "Six Months in Italy"—a delightful book, worthy of the beautiful country it so beautifully describes.
- From a Review of "Love the Greatest Enchantment", etc., in the "New York Tablet", July 19, 1862, written by the gifted and ill-fated Hon. Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee, of Montreal.
- A LIST Calderon's Dramas and Autos Sacramentales,
- THE PURGATORY OF SAINT PATRICK.
- THE CONSTANT PRINCE.
- A Drama.
- THE PHYSICIAN OF HIS OWN HONOUR.
- THE SECRET IN WORDS.
- A Drama.
- THE SCARF AND THE FLOWER.
- A Drama.
- LOVE AFTER DEATH.
- A Drama.
- LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT
- A Drama.
- THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS.
- A Drama.
- THE SORCERIES OF SIN.
- An Auto.
- BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.
- An Auto.
- THE DIVINE PHILOTHEA.
- An Auto.
- THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN.
- A Drama.
- Calderon's Autos Sacramentales, or Mysteries of Corpus Christi. Duffy: Dublin and London, 1867. From "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record".
- THE SPANISH DRAMA
- THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN,
- THREE DRAMAS OF CALDERON,
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