Verse play · 1865

The Mighty Magician

Taken from Calderón's El Mágico Prodigioso

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1865)

In Antioch the scholar and magician Cipriano sells his soul to the Devil to win the Christian Justina, who resists every spell. Cipriano is converted, and he and Justina are martyred together while Lucifer is left to confess his defeat. This is a different play and a different translation from Shelley's scenes of the same drama.

Contents · 7 parts

• Persons of the Play11 lines
• Act I, Scene 1about 660 lines
• Act I, Scene 2about 280 lines
• Act II, Scene 1about 290 lines
• Act III, Scene 1about 280 lines
• Act III, Scene 2about 300 lines
• Act III, Scene 3about 500 lines

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