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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Madrid, 1600 - 1681, Madrid

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LC Heading: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681

found: Wikipedia, 9 March 2015 (Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 1600-25 May 1681), was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age; born and died in Madrid, Spain)

Biography:

(born Jan. 17, 1600, Madrid, Spain-died May 25, 1681, Madrid) Spanish playwright. He abandoned religious studies in 1623 to write plays for the court of Philip IV of Spain. His secular plays included The Surgeon of His Honour (1635), Life Is a Dream (1638), and his masterpiece, The Daughter of the Air (1653). His many plays on religious themes include The Constant Prince (1629) and The Wonder-Working Magician (1637). He also created 76 one-act religious dramas, notably The Great Theatre of the World (c. 1635) and The Faithful Shepherd (1678). Considered the successor to Lope de Vega as the greatest playwright of the Spanish Golden Age, he was noted for his well-constructed plots and his preoccupation with the vanity of human existence.

Calderón De La Barca, Pedro". 2014. In Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed November 2015. www.credoreference.com.

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