Pedro Calderon de la Barca y Barreda Gonzalez de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riano usually referred as Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

1600-1681

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Are aproximativ 400 de piese.
A fost si el ofiter si calugar.
In perioada cand se construia Invincibila Armada.
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Calderon was born in Madrid. His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in 1610; his father, an hidalgo of Cantabrian origins who was secretary to the treasury, died in 1615. Calderon was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid, the Colegio Imperial, with a view to taking orders; but instead, he studied law at Salamanca.

Between 1620 and 1622 Calderon won several poetry contests in honor of St Isidore at Madrid. Calderon's debut as a playwright was Amor, honor y poder, performed on 29 June 1623. This was followed by two other plays that same year: La selva confusa and Los Macabeos. Over the next two decades, Calderon wrote more than 70 plays, the majority of which were secular dramas written for the commercial theatres.

According to one of his biographers, Vera Tassis, Calderon served with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders between 1625 and 1635; but this statement is contradicted by numerous legal documents indicating that Calderon resided at Madrid during these years. Early in 1629 one of his brothers was stabbed by an actor who took sanctuary in a convent; Calderon, accompanied by another brother and some constables, broke into the cloister and attempted to seize the criminal. (One of the nuns happened to be the daughter of fellow dramatist Lope de Vega.) The fashionable preacher, Hortensio Felix Paravicino, denounced Calderon's actions in a sermon preached before King Philip IV; Calderon retorted by introducing into El príncipe constante, a mocking reference to Paravicino's florid oratory. Calderon was punished with three days of house arrest, and forced to remove the offending line from the play.