Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Born in Madrid on January 17, 1600, Pedro Calderón de la Barca (kahl-day-ROHN day lah BAHR-kah), the national dramatist of Spain who was to dominate his age as thoroughly as the dramatic poet Lope de Vega (1562-1635) did his, came from a good family of the lower nobility. His father was a secretary of the treasury under two kings and could afford to give his son the best education available. Calderón entered the Royal Jesuit School of Madrid when he was nine and later continued his studies at the universities of Alcalá de Henares and Salamanca, where he began writing and producing...
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