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Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a Spanish-language verse drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, the story focuses on the fictional Sigismund, Prince of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower by his father, King Basilius, following a dire prophecy that the prince would bring disaster to the country and death to the King. Basilius briefly frees Sigismund and allows him to take his rightful place at court, but when the prince kills a servant and attempts to rape a lady-in-waiting, the king imprisons him again, persuading him that it was all a dream. But Sigismund is later freed again to lead a rebellion against his father.
The play is a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life, it's central themes are the conflict between free will and fate, as well as restoring one's honor. Other themes include dreams vs. reality and the conflict between father and son. The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama"
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6363/pg6363.html
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- Project Code: iKLjUIns
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/_Pedro_Calderón_de_la_Barca ( Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_a_Dream
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 35
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1873
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Genres for the project: Plays/Drama/Tragedy
Keywords that describe the book: Drama, Spanish Golden Age
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per act.
At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For first section say:
End of recording say:"Dedication and Dramatis Personae for Life is a Dream. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy. Dedication."
For final edited sections say:"End of Dedication and Dramatis Personae."
End of recording say:"Act # Scenes ## to ## of Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Act #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy."
Filename for individual roles : lifeisadream_charactername_#_128kb.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. lifeisadream_sigismund_1_128kb.mp3)
Filename for final edited sections: lifeisadream_#_calderondelabarca_128kb.mp3 where # is the section number. (e.g. lifeisadream_1_calderondelabarca_128kb.mp3)
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