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

Thirty-five years afterward Madame Calderon de la Barca, in 1838, found it in the courtyard of the university.

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