Books by Pedro Calderon

The third of Calderon's three wife-murder plays, in which an artist is asked to paint a portrait of a beautiful woman, only to find that she is his long-lost wife who had been kidnapped by her former lover. Thinking she has surrendered to her captor, the painter kills them.

A masterpiece from one of the great dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age, Pedro Calderon de la Barca.