The Limits of Illusion
Subtitle: A Critical Study of Calderón (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780521022774
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays; Criticism and interpretation; Drama; Plays / Drama; Spanish; Continental European; Calder?on de la Barca, Pedro, --1600-1681--Cr; Calderâon de la Barca, Pedro,--1600-1681--Criticism and interpretation; Drama / Continental European; 1600-1681; Calderâon de la Barca, Pedro,; Illusion in literature
First sentence: For the Spanish comedia as a genre, La vida es sueno represents the most accomplished example of what Francis Fergusson once called the "idea of a theatre," the sustained attempt at self-imagining through representation.