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Don Pedro Calderón /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cruickshank, Don William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, > 1600-1681.
Table of Contents:
  • The birthplace: Madrid in 1600
  • The family background
  • Childhood and early adolescence
  • A turning-point
  • A talent discovered by accident
  • Letters, not arms
  • Blasphemy, sacrilege and lèse-majesté
  • Lessons for controlling personalities
  • Only poetry, not precious stones
  • Taking over from Lope
  • Knight of Santiago
  • Discordant voices
  • The storm gathers
  • War and disillusionment
  • A time to mourn
  • Beginning to recover
  • Epilogue: the glories of the world.