Calderón de la Barca

American  

[kahl-duh-rohn del-uh bahr-kuh, kahl-de-rawn de lah bahr-kah] / ˌkɑl dəˈroʊn ˌdɛl ə ˈbɑr kə, ˌkɑl dɛˈrɔn dɛ lɑ ˈβɑr kɑ /

noun

1. Pedro 1600–81, Spanish dramatist and poet.

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Calderón de la Barca British  

/ kaldeˈron de la ˈbarka /

noun

1. Pedro (ˈpeðro). 1600–81, Spanish dramatist, whose best-known work is La Vida es Sueño. He also wrote autos sacramentales, outdoor plays for the feast of Corpus Christi, 76 of which survive.

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Example Sentences

“Life Is a Dream” is based on a 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca about a prince banished at birth by his father.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

The death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca – soldier, priest and one of the finest dramatists Spain has produced – continues to prove almost as turbulent and unpredictable as his long and improbable life.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2021

He grew up going to the theater with his parents: plays by Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018

The question then becomes: what is the story, when Wagner drew not only on Teutonic and Norse legends but also on Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Calderón de la Barca, and Schopenhauer?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Calderón had faith, robust Catholic faith; but for him who lacks faith, for him who cannot believe in what Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca believed, there always remains the attitude of Obermann.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)