Автор:Pedro Calderon de la Barca Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 480 ISBN: 9781616401153 Author names not noted above: Jean Racine, Moliere, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXVI features the six 17th- and 18th-century plays that have most influenced Western European literature and culture: • Life Is a Dream, by Spanish dramatist PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA (1600-1681), his 1635 allegory debating free will and fate • Polyeucte, by French playwright and father of French tragedy PIERRE CORNEILLE (1606-1684), his 1642 drama based on the...
