Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600 81) was, with Lope de Vega, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama. Professor Parker's essays are the fruits of a highly distinguished career spanning forty-five years. They provide a wide-ranging survey of Calderon's secular, three-act plays (comedias) through detailed analyses of individual works. The themes found in the plays are studied in relation to the background of ideas in seventeenth-century Spain and to the development of Calderon's own view of the intellectual life and the social, ethical and moral problems of this age. From the...
Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600 81) was, with Lope de Vega, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama. Professor Parker's essays are the ...