Verse play · 1853

The Mayor of Zalamea

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1853)

Soldiers of Philip II are quartered at Zalamea, and the Captain dishonours the daughter of Pedro Crespo, a prosperous farmer. Crespo, newly made Mayor, arrests the Captain and has him judged and executed, and the King upholds his justice. The one play in the volume FitzGerald says was already well known.


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