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Title: Life Is a Dream: A Play. by Pedro, Calderon De LA Barca, Edwin Honig ISBN: 0-8090-6556-8 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: June, 1970 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FORGET HAMLET, A NEW GUY IS IN TOWN
Comment: To be or not to be maybe is one of the most famous quotation. It is catchy, but " ¿Qué es la vida?/un frenesi/ ¿Qué es la vida?/ una ilusión" is better.
Forget a spoiled prince too obssesed with his mother. Forget a maid who needs a therapy and soon. We have Segismundo and Rosaura. A brave, drop dead gorgeous dark hero and a resourceful, witty, inteligent heroine. You will laugh, you will cry.
You have romance, sword-fighting-cross-star lovers, intrigue, foreign policy. All in one.
Seriously, this is the best play ever written. You can enjoy only the story or find a real interpretation of Spain under the Habsburgs. But also a search for identity. Calderon asks the eternal question WHO ARE WE and wrapped it in a wonderful, rich and manificent dress.
Try it and you forget Dennmark. And if you can read it in Spanish. Maybe is hard but it will worth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Life is indeed a dream
Comment: This immortal play is an allegory: a tale which illustrates us on some superior truth, employing symbols. Basil is the king of Poland, who hides his son Sigmund (Freud?, just kidding)in a tower, for fear that an oracle may come true. Once, he takes him out to see what kind of man he is, and discovers Sigmund is arrogant and authoritarian. Then he puts him back in his cell and manages to convince him that everything was just a dream. After that, civil war begins, and Sigmund is out to fight, a totally different man from what he was.
"Life is a dream" is a play about the utter unreliability of our senses. Of course, we have to use them to figure out some reality in which we can live. But we have no idea of who we are and where we come from, much less what will happen after death. We also don't know what death is. It is also a case in favor of peace and solidarity. Why spend our brief and dream-like time on Earth being mean and dirty?: let's all be friendly and good, and this will be a good dream and not a nightmare.
Despite its philosophical subject, the play is quick-paced and funny. The plot to make Sigmund believe everything was a dream is hilarious, and it is easy to see why it's a classic. Read it.
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Title: The Mandrake. by Niccolo Machiavelli, Wallace Shawn ISBN: 0822207281 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Illusion (Tcg Translations, 6) by Pierre Corneille, Tony Kushner ISBN: 1559360909 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht ISBN: 1559702354 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Everyman by Anonymous ISBN: 0486287262 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 24 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Medea by Euripides ISBN: 0486275485 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 19 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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