Life Is a Dream (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Pedro Calderón De La Barca
- First Published: 1636
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Poland
- Genres: Drama, Melodrama
- Subjects: Parents and children, Prisoners, Fathers, Inheritance or succession, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sixteenth century, Poland or Polish people, Honor
- Locales: Poland
Characters Discussed
Segismundo (say-hees-MEWN- doh), the heir to the throne of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower on the Russian frontier because horrible portents at his birth and later predictions by astrologers have convinced his father, King Basilio, that the boy will grow into a monster who will destroy the land. Finally, because the king sees his land split over the matter of succession, Segismundo is drugged and transported from his prison to the court of Warsaw. There, uncouth and inexperienced, he behaves boorishly. He accuses the court of wronging him and...
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