When love is not madness,
it is not love.

Cuando amor no es locura
no es amor.

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

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Spain Europe

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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.

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Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr

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Topic
Nature of love Love
Speaker
Damilcar

Author

John Dryden
Source
Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Language
English
Time
1669 1660s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. Performed by Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes and Michael Mohun and Charles Hart and Rebecca Marshall and William Cartwright. King's Company, 1669, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970.

Another quote originally in Spanish

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic
Too much of a good thing Excess

Author

Miguel de Cervantes
Source
Don Quixote
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Question
Language
Spanish
Time
1605 1600s 16th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.