Verse play · 1853

Three Judgments at a Blow

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1853)

In the Aragon of Pedro IV, a quarrel between two noble houses and a blow struck in the dark bring three sentences down together on the House of Urrea and the King's Minister. The title is Calderón's own riddle, answered in the closing lines: three judgments summed up in a single blow.

Contents · 12 parts

• Persons of the Play10 lines
• Act I, Scene 1about 230 lines
• Act I, Scene 2about 190 lines
• Act I, Scene 3about 140 lines
• Act II, Scene 1about 700 lines
• Act III, Scene 168 lines
• Act III, Scene 273 lines
• Act III, Scene 39 lines
• Act III, Scene 448 lines
• Act III, Scene 569 lines
• Act III, Scene 6about 190 lines
• Act III, Scene 758 lines

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