Verse play · 1865

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of

A drama taken from Calderón's La Vida es Sueño

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1865)

Basilio, King of Poland, confines his son Segismund from birth because of a prophecy, then drugs him and lets him wake in the palace for a day to test it. FitzGerald's free version of La vida es sueño, whose title he turns into a joke on the stolen phrase.

Contents · 6 parts

• Persons of the Play9 lines
• Act I, Scene 1about 490 lines
• Act I, Scene 2about 330 lines
• Act II, Scene 1about 790 lines
• Act III, Scene 1about 610 lines
• Act III, Scene 2about 190 lines

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