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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, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for the many verse dramas he wrote for the theatre. Calderón has been termed "the Spanish Shakespeare", the national poet of Spain, and one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of world literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Calderón de la Barca has received more than 478,505 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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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.03

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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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