Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681). Life Is a Dream.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Dramatis Personæ

BASILIO, King of Poland.

SEGISMUND, his Son.

ASTOLFO, his Nephew.

ESTRELLA, his Niece.

CLOTALDO, a General in Basilio’s Service.

ROSAURA, a Muscovite Lady.

FIFE, her Attendant.

CHAMBERLAIN, LORDS-IN-WAITING, OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, ETC., IN BASILIO’S SERVICE.

The Scene of the first and third Acts lies on the Polish frontier: of the second Act, in Warsaw.