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- Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born on January 17, 1600 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer, known for The Night of Love (1927), Der Richter von Zalamea (1920) and El príncipe encadenado (1960). He died on May 25, 1681 in Madrid, Spain.
- One of the most famous playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age; his plays are well-known both for their unusual themes, nearly always concerning the "pundonor" (a sense of honor carried to ridiculous and controversial extremes) and their extravagant use of poetic language. His best known play, "La Vida Es Sueño" (Life Is A Dream) contains the most famous soliloquy in Spanish theatre , as famous in Spanish as Hamlet's "To be or not to be" is in English.
- He was the court dramatist for King Philip IV of Spain.
- Became a priest in 1651.
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