Preface Acknowledgments Note on texts and notes Introduction 1. La vida es sueno: Calderon's idea of a theatre 2. La dama duende 3. Calderon and Tirso: El galan fantasma 4. El secreto a voces: language and social illusion 5. Toward tragedy 6. El medico de su honra 7. Herod and Hercules: theatrical space and the body 8. El magico prodigioso and the theatre of alchemy 9. The illusions of history 10. Authority and illusion: En la vida todo es verdad y too mentira 11. The use of myth: Eco y Narciso 12. Prometheus and the theatre of the mind 13. Calderon's last play: the comedia as technology and romance Notes Index.
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