Verse play · 1853

Beware of Smooth Water

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1853)

A light comedy of courtship in a Spanish household, where Don Alonso's daughters Clara and Eugenia, a nephew, gallants and servants cross one another's purposes. FitzGerald thinks it written for the 1649 wedding of Philip IV, and it closes on its own moral: beware of all smooth waters.

Contents · 10 parts

• Persons of the Play5 lines
• Act I, Scene 1about 150 lines
• Act I, Scene 2about 170 lines
• Act I, Scene 3about 190 lines
• Act II, Scene 1about 200 lines
• Act II, Scene 2about 110 lines
• Act II, Scene 3about 230 lines
• Act III, Scene 177 lines
• Act III, Scene 2about 150 lines
• Act III, Scene 3about 190 lines

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