Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre. Calderón has been termed "the Spanish Shakespeare", the national poet of Spain, and one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of world literature. Calderón de la Barca was born into the minor Spanish nobility in Madrid, where he lived for most of his life. He served as soldier and a knight of the military and religious Order of Santiago, but later became a Roman Catholic priest. His theatrical debut was a history play about the life of King Edward III of England, was first performed on 29 June 1623 at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, during the surprise visit to Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales to negotiate for a dynastic marriage alliance with the Spanish Habsburgs.Wikipedia
CalderóndelaBarca's portrait, in Primera parte de Comedias verdaderas (1726). PedroCalderóndelaBarca was born in Madrid on Friday 17 January 1600, [4] and was baptized in the parish of San Martín. His father, Diego Calderón, was a mountain hidalgo with family origins in Viveda, Cantabria and had inherited his own father's position of secretary of the Council and Chief Accounting ...
Jan 13, 2025PedroCalderóndelaBarca (born January 17, 1600, Madrid, Spain—died May 25, 1681, Madrid) was a dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.Among his best-known secular dramas are El médico de su honra (1635; The Surgeon of His Honour), La vida es sueño (1635; Life Is a Dream), El alcalde de Zalamea (c. 1640; The Mayor of Zalamea ...
PedroCalderóndelaBarca nació el 17 de enero de 1600, en Madrid, España. Padres De familia de ascendencia hidalga acreditada, fue el tercero de los seis hijos de Ana María de Henao y Diego Calderón, secretario del Consejo y Contaduría Mayor de Hacienda.
PedroCalderóndelaBarca nació en Madrid el lunes 17 de enero de 1600 y fue bautizado en la parroquia de San Martín. Su padre, Diego Calderón, era hidalgo de origen montañés (Viveda, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria) y por herencia paterna había asumido el cargo de secretario del Consejo y Contaduría Mayor de Hacienda, sirviendo en él a los reyes Felipe II y Felipe III.
CALDER Ó N DELABARCA, PEDRO. CALDER Ó N DELABARCA, PEDRO (1600 - 1681), Spanish dramatist. Pedro Calder ó n delaBarca was one of the greatest dramatists of Spain's literary Golden Age.Born into a well-established Castilian family with ties to the court, Calder ó n received his early education at the Jesuit Imperial College of Madrid and went on to study logic, rhetoric, and ...
PedroCalderóndelaBarca, (born Jan. 17, 1600, Madrid, Spain—died May 25, 1681, Madrid), Spanish playwright. He abandoned religious studies in 1623 to write plays for the court of Philip IV of Spain. His secular plays included The Surgeon of His Honour (1635), Life Is a Dream (1638), and his masterpiece, The Daughter of the Air (1653).
CalderóndelaBarca,Pedro 1600-1681 Spanish playwrightPedro CalderóndelaBarca of Madrid was one of the greatest Spanish playwrights of the Renaissance. During his career Calderón wrote several poems and approximately 120 three-act plays. His later work with musical theater contributed to the development of opera in Spain. Source for information on CalderóndelaBarca,Pedro 1600 ...
PedroCalderóndelaBarca. PedroCalderóndelaBarca y Henao (17 January 1600 - 25 May 1681), was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.. Calderón was born in Madrid.His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in 1610; his father, who was secretary to the treasury, died in 1615. Calderón was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid, the Colegio Imperial, with a view to taking orders ...
PedroCalderóndelaBarca (17 January 1600 - 25 May 1681) was a distinguished Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age.Born in Madrid, Spain, he is known for his significant contributions to Baroque literature.CalderóndelaBarca's work is regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre, and he is considered one of the finest playwrights of world literature.
PedroCalderóndelaBarca was born in Madrid on Jan. 17, 1600. He enrolled at the University of Alcalá in 1614 and a year later transferred to the University of Salamanca, where he studied law, arts, and theology. In 1623 he began to write plays for the royal theater of King Philip IV. After military service in Italy and Flanders, he managed ...
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