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Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born January 17, 1600 • Madrid • Spain
Died May 25, 1681 (aged 81) • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works “Celos, aun del aire matan” • “El alcalde de Zalamea” • “El médico de su honra” • “El pintor de su deshonra” • “La cisma de la Ingalaterra” • “La hija del aire” • “La nave del mercader” • “Life Is a Dream” • “No hay cosa como callar” • “The Constant Prince”
Movement / Style Golden Age

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Lope de Vega
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Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.
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Spanish writer
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Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
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Tirso de Molina
Spanish dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Gómez Manrique
Spanish author
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Agustín Moreto
Spanish dramatist
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer

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