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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

1600 - 1681

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 1600 – 25 May 1681) (UK: , US: ; Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo kaldeˈɾon de la ˈβaɾka]; full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. He is known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for his plays. Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid, where he spent most of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Calderón de la Barca has received more than 438,325 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 81 in 2019). Pedro Calderón de la Barca is the 250th most popular writer (down from 227th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Spain (down from 59th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Spanish Writer.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca is most famous for writing the play Life is a Dream.

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Notable Works

Vida es sueño
Drama
A new translation of Calderón's most popular mystery.
1856
Comedias
1637
El alcalde de Zalamea
1900
La dama duende
History
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1945
La vida es sueño
1740
El mágico prodigioso
1877

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Over the past year Pedro Calderón de la Barca has had the most page views in the with 248,598 views, followed by English (47,277), and Russian (18,881). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (119.63%), Uzbek (91.38%), and Malagasy (88.61%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Calderón de la Barca ranks 250 out of 7,302. Before him are Saadi Shirazi, Halldór Laxness, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paula Hitler, Germaine de Staël, and Valmiki. After him are Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Anna Akhmatova, and Shota Rustaveli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Pedro Calderón de la Barca ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement IX, and Charles I of England. After him are Claude Lorrain, Sawney Bean, False Dmitry II, Marie de Rohan, Nicolas Sanson, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Maria Celeste, Kuchum, and Gabriel Naudé. Among people deceased in 1681, Pedro Calderón de la Barca ranks 1. After him are Gerard ter Borch, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Jahanara Begum, Zheng Jing, Justus Sustermans, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Calderón de la Barca ranks 67 out of 3,355. Before him are Ramon Llull (1232), Eugénie de Montijo (1826), Quintilian (35), Josep Borrell (1947), Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784), and Abbas ibn Firnas (810). After him are Alfonso XII of Spain (1857), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Luis Aragonés (1938), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Plácido Domingo (1941), and Lucan (39).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Calderón de la Barca ranks 6. Before him are Miguel de Cervantes (1547), Federico García Lorca (1898), Joan Fuster (1922), Lope de Vega (1562), and Quintilian (35). After him are Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Seneca the Elder (-54), Martial (40), and Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881).

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