



Produced by Sue Asscher









THE WONDER-WORKING MAGICIAN

By Pedro Calderon de la Barca

CALDERON'S DRAMAS.


Now First Translated Fully From The Spanish In The Metre
Of The Original. By Denis Florence Mac-Carthy.



London:  Henry S. King & Co.,
65 Cornhill, And 12, Paternoster Row.
1873.





INTRODUCTION.

Two of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated of
all Calderon's writings.  The first, "La Vida es Sueno", has been
translated into many languages and performed with success on almost
every stage in Europe but that of England.  So late as the winter of
1866-7, in a Russian version, it drew crowded houses to the great
theatre of Moscow; while a few years earlier, as if to give a signal
proof of the reality of its title, and that Life was indeed a