Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Topic

Nature of life Life Dreams

Speaker

Sigismund

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Life is a Dream

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

When love is not madness,
it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Speaker

El Tetrarca Herodes

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Jealousy, the Greatest Monster

Medium

Play

Language

Spanish

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. El Mayor Monstruo, Los Celos: Tragedia en Tres Actos [The Greatest Monster, Jealousy: Tragedy in Three Acts]. 1637.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Jealousy the Greatest Monster, translated by Ann L. Mackenzie and Jose Maria Ruano de la Ruano de la Haza. Liverpool University Press, 2017.