Life Is a Dream

LIFE IS A DREAM

By Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born in Madrid, January 17, 1600, of good family. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid and at the University of Salamanca; and a doubtful tradition says that he began to write plays at the age of thirteen. His literary activity was ...