Life Is a Dream (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pedro Calderón De La Barca
- First Published: 1636
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Poland
- Principal Characters: Basilio, Segismundo, Astolfo, Estrella, Clotaldo, Rosaura, Fife
- 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
The Story:
One night, in the wild, mountainous country between Poland and Russia, a Russian noblewoman, Rosaura, and her servant, Fife, found themselves in distress. Their horses had bolted, and they feared that they would have to make on foot the remainder of their journey to the royal court of Poland. Rosaura, for protection through that barbarous frontier country, was disguised as a man. Their weary way brought them at last to a forbidding fortress. There they overheard a young man, chained to the doorway of the castle, deliver a heart-rending soliloquy in which he lamented...
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