One of this author's characters is imprisoned in the Statue of Liberty in the second half of Giannina Braschi's The United States of Banana.
One of this author's characters is imprisoned in the Statue of Liberty in the second half of Giannina Braschi's The United States of Banana. A bawdy song about "little blue flowers of rosemary" is sung by Chispa, the mistress of Rebolledo, in a play by this man subtitled "The Best Garrotting Ever Done". A character adopts the motto "God is God" in a play by this author in which Clotaldo reveals that he is the father of (*) Rosaura, who marries Astolfo at the play's end. His plays include one in which Poland is nearly ruined when Basilio briefly frees Prince Segismundo, as well as one in which Pedro Crespo is elected to the title position. For 10 points, name this author of The Mayor of Zalamea and Life is a Dream, the most prominent Spanish Golden Age playwright after Lope de Vega.
One of this author's characters is imprisoned in the Statue of Liberty in the second half of Giannina Braschi's The United States of Banana.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca [or Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, of course]