by Pedro Calderón de la Barca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423902897
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«El Mágico Prodigioso» is the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (195 pages, in Spanish).
Calderón dramatizes the legend of Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina of Antioch: Cyprian tries to win Justina with magical arts, while the Devil intervenes in the contest for her soul. It is a religious drama with philosophical debate, great visual spectacle and the Baroque motif of disillusionment.
The volume belongs to Espasa-Calpe's Austral Collection and also includes the play «Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar».
It will interest readers of classical Spanish theatre, especially those studying the Golden Age and the work of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño 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.
