Definition of Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1. Noun. Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681).

Exact synonyms: Calderon, Calderon De La Barca
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca (current term)
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Literary usage of Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... them one of the proper comedy, whieh we shall select from the works of the acknowledged master of the Spanish Theatre, Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca. ..."

2. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"SIGISMUND.1 BY CALDERON. (From " Life Is a Dream": translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy.) [Pedro Calderon de la Barca, one of the chief poets of ..."

3. Poets the Interpreters of Their Age by Anna Swanwick (1892)
"Among his successors, many of whom were poets endowed with manifold gifts, there is one, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, of whom it has been said that "he will ..."

4. Poets the Interpreters of Their Age by Anna Swanwick (1892)
"Among his successors, many of whom were poets endowed with manifold gifts, there is one, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, of whom it has been said that "he will ..."

5. Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller (1910)
"Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born in Madrid, January i7, i600, of good family. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid and at the University of ..."

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