Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quote
CLOTALDO. What then dost thou mean to do?ROSAURA. Kill the Duke.CLOTALDO. A gentle dame,Who no father's name doth know,Can she so much valour show?ROSAURA. Yes.CLOTALDO. What drives thee on?ROSAURA. My fame.CLOTALDO. Think that in the Duke thou'lt see . . . .ROSAURA. Honour all my wrath doth rouse.CLOTALDO. Soon thy king — Estrella's spouse.ROSAURA. No, by Heaven! it must not be.CLOTALDO. It is madness.ROSAURA. Yes, I see it.CLOTALDO. Conquer it.ROSAURA. I can't o'erthrow it.CLOTALDO. It will cost thee . . . .ROSAURA. Yes, I know it.CLOTALDO. Life and honour.ROSAURA. Well, so be it.CLOTALDO. What wouldst have?ROSAURA. My death.CLOTALDO. Take care!It is spite.ROSAURA. 'Tis honour's cure.CLOTALDO. 'Tis wild fire.ROSAURA. That will endure.CLOTALDO. It is frenzy.ROSAURA. Rage, despair.CLOTALDO. Can there then be nothing doneThis blind rage to let pass by?ROSAURA. No.
CLOTALDO. What then dost thou mean to do?ROSAURA. Kill the Duke.CLOTALDO. A gentle dame,Who no father's name doth know,Can she so much valour show?ROSAURA. Yes.CLOTALDO. What drives thee on?ROSAURA. My fame.CLOTALDO. Think that in the Duke thou'lt see . . . .ROSAURA. Honour all my wrath doth rouse.CLOTALDO. Soon thy king — Estrella's spouse.ROSAURA. No, by Heaven! it must not be.CLOTALDO. It is madness.ROSAURA. Yes, I see it.CLOTALDO. Conquer it.ROSAURA. I can't o'erthrow it.CLOTALDO. It will cost thee . . . .ROSAURA. Yes, I know it.CLOTALDO. Life and honour.ROSAURA. Well, so be it.CLOTALDO. What wouldst have?ROSAURA. My death.CLOTALDO. Take care!It is spite.ROSAURA. 'Tis honour's cure.CLOTALDO. 'Tis wild fire.ROSAURA. That will endure.CLOTALDO. It is frenzy.ROSAURA. Rage, despair.CLOTALDO. Can there then be nothing doneThis blind rage to let pass by?ROSAURA. No.
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About Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Calderón de la Barca was born into the minor Spanish nobility in Madrid, where he lived for most of his life. He served as soldier and a knight of the military and religious Order of Santiago, but later became a Roman Catholic priest. Born while the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further by introducing pioneering elements of what are now called metafiction and surrealism. His poetry and plays have since wielded an enormous global influence upon Romanticism, symbolism, literary modernism, expressionism, dystopian science fiction, and even postmodernism. Calderón is widely regarded as the perfecter of Spanish Baroque theatre and is regarded as Spain's greatest dramatist, national poet, and as one of the greatest poets and playwrights in world literature. In 2021, a renewed search for Calderón's missing remains gained media attention worldwide.