Life is a Dream
An imprisoned man wakes to learn that he is the king’s son and stands to inherit the throne. This 17th-century Spanish play deals with the themes of fate, free will, deceit, loyalty, and the nature of reality. It is remarkably suggestive of certain Buddhist themes too: “For the whole of life is just a dream, and dreams… dreams are only dreams.”
Read a Print Version:
(English) Calderon, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Nick Hern Book, 1999.
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