The last play of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, The Tower, is based on this play. The name of that play comes from the tower in which the protagonist spends most of his life chained to a metal ring in the floor. After his true identity is revealed to him by his father, he falls in love with his cousin, who ends up being seduced by Duke Astolfo of Muscovy, but the protagonist breaks up the union and sets up Astolfo with Rosaura, claiming his cousin Estrella for himself. For 10 points-- name this play, whose title refers to what Clotaldo convinces Prince Segismund the day's events have been, a work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The last play of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, The Tower, is based on this play. The name of that play comes from the tower in which the protagonist spends most of his life chained to a metal ring in the floor. After his true identity is revealed to him by his father, he falls in love with his cousin, who ends up being seduced by Duke Astolfo of Muscovy, but the protagonist breaks up the union and sets up Astolfo with Rosaura, claiming his cousin Estrella for himself. For 10 points-- name this play, whose title refers to what Clotaldo convinces Prince Segismund the day's events have been, a work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
The last play of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, The Tower, is based on this play.
{Life is a Dream}