What is La vida es sueño?
[[File:Antonio_de_Pereda_-_El_sueño_del_caballero_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|250x250px|''The dream of the knight'' or ''Life Ia a Dream'', picture by baroque painter Antonio of Pereda at the Academy of San Fernando, [[Madrid]].]] [[File:Monumento_a_Calderón_de_la_Barca_(Madrid)_03.jpg|right|thumb|250x250px|''Life Is a Dream''. [[Relief]] in bronze, detail of the monument to [[Pedro Calderòn de la Barca|Calderón]] in the Square of Santa Ana of [[Madrid]] (work by J. Figueras, [[1878]]).]] '''''Life Is a Dream''''' is a play by the Spanish writer [[Pedro Calderòn de la Barca]]. It was first performed in [[1635]]. It is an [[allegory]] of the human situation, [[fate]] and the mystery of life. It is one of Calderón's best-known plays. [[Category:17th-century plays]] [[Category:Spanish literature]] [[Category:1630s works]]