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Life Is a Dream

play by Calderón
Also known as: “La vida es sueño”

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Eastern and Western literature

  • In comedy: Divine comedies in the West and East

    …Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream (1635) is an example; on the operatic stage, so is Mozart’s Magic Flute (1791), in spirit and form so like Shakespeare’s Tempest, to which it has often been compared. In later drama, Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf (1894) and August Strindberg’s To…

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Spanish literature