Calderon: The Schism in England: La Cisma de Inglaterra

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Kenneth Muir

Admired by Shelley for 'its satisfying completeness', this thought-provoking and skilfully constructed play, which dramatizes the same subject as Shakespeare's Henry VIII, is one of its creator's most outstanding achievements. Understandably, Calderon offers an interpretation of King Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and break with the Church of Rome which is markedly different from that given in Shakespeare's work. Yet, despite his Counter-Reformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856683329
• ISBN13: 9780856683329
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.2"