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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Type Figure Region Spain Time 1600–1681 Also known as Pedro Calderón de la Barca、卡尔德隆

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), one of the leading playwrights and poets of Spain's late Golden Age, famed for the philosophical drama Life I…

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  1. 1600–1620Madrid · MadridBorn into a noble Madrid family, he received a humanist education at Jesuit schools and the University of Salamanca, and around the age of seventeen began writing comedies and religious plays, showing his talent for Baroque poetic drama.
  2. 1620–1650Madrid · MadridHe took part in the wars in Flanders and Catalonia and won the laurel at a poetry contest in Madrid in 1627. Thereafter he wrote for the court of Philip IV for many years; his masterpiece Life Is a Dream was composed around 1635, exploring free will and fate through the metaphor of a dream.
  3. 1651–1681Madrid · MadridAfter taking holy orders in 1651 he continued writing for the court of Charles II, producing numerous autos sacramentales (sacramental plays) and court festival plays until his death in Madrid in 1681.

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