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Life Is a Dream Summary & Study Guide Description
Life Is a Dream Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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In the original Spanish, Life Is a Dream is a verse play. In translations attempting to be true to the original verse form, the qualities that add to the play's appealits lyricism, poetic invention, and linguistic beautycan make the play seem stilted and more difficult and less engaging than it is. Edward and Elizabeth Huberman, in 1963, fashioned a prose translation of La vida es sueño that, while it does not sacrifice the beauty, wit, drama, imagery, or philosophical playfulness of the original, flows with ease and is natural and engaging. It is available in Spanish Drama, edited by Angel Flores and published by Bantam Books.
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