Calderón de la Barca

[ kahl-duh-rohn del-uh bahr-kuh; Spanish kahl-de-rawn de lah bahr-kah ]

noun

1. Pe·dro [pey, -droh, ped, -roh, pe, -, th, r, aw], 1600–81, Spanish dramatist and poet.

Calderón de la Barca

/ kaldeˈron de la ˈbarka /

noun

1. Calderón de la BarcaPedro16001681MSpanishTHEATRE: dramatist 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.

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

Ricardo Calderon de la Barca Hernandez, a taekwondo instructor passing through the Zocalo, stopped to watch.

From Los Angeles Times

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

A copy of Don Quixote features heavily, as do the issues of imprisonment and free will explored in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seminal Golden Age play Life is a Dream.

From The Guardian

"Homer, Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca."

From Literature