Life Is a Dream

Life Is a Dream
ISBN-10
1723328871
ISBN-13
9781723328879
Series
Life Is a Dream
Pages
182
Language
English
Published
2018-07-29
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Description

The Scene of the first and third Acts lies on the Polish frontier: of the second Act, in Warsaw. As this version of Calderon's drama is not for acting, a higher and wider mountain-scene than practicable may be imagined for Rosaura's descent in the first Act and the soldiers' ascent in the last. The bad watch kept by the sentinels who guarded their state-prisoner, together with much else (not all!) that defies sober sense in this wild drama, I must leave Calderon to answer for; whose audience were not critical of detail and probability, so long as a good story, with strong, rapid, and picturesque action and situation, was set before them. ACT I SCENE I--A pass of rocks, over which a storm is rolling away, and the sun setting: in the foreground, half-way down, a fortress. (Enter first from the topmost rock Rosaura, as from horseback, in man's attire; and, after her, Fife.)

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