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Calderon: Three Plays

Calderon: Three Plays

by Pedro Calderon

Translated by Adrian Mitchell

The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the World

In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants’ honour clashes with military discipline. Life’s a Dream is Calderón’s most famous philosophical play. The Great Theatre of the World is an allegorical work that would originally have been performed in the street to the accompaniment of music and dancing.

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Press Comment:

'Adrian Mitchell's translation into various verse forms is spectacular'
Spectator

'A blazing masterpiece'
The Times

'Adrian Mitchell's version of the multi-toned tragi-comedy is something of a revelation. For it show that Calderon can be done into English with the kind of fluency (and fun) which we might expect from our own Jacobean playwrights - and with a flavour all his own'
Daily Telegraph

Published: Jan 1991
Binding: PaperBack
Page extent: 191

ISBN: 9780948230264

£16.99

Calderon: Three Plays

by Pedro Calderon Translated by Adrian Mitchell

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by Pedro Calderon

Translated by Adrian Mitchell