Life Is a Dream: read in Spanish (B1)
Read Calderón’s Life Is a Dream retold in Spanish prose: a MovaReader adaptation of the 1636 verse play for level B1, with all the tenses and word translation.
La vida es sueño (adaptación, Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
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What you'll learn
Past subjunctive after si, para que and como si, conditional and conditional perfect, pluperfect, reported speech, vosotros and courtly vos forms, vocabulary of the court, honor, prison and war
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño, first printed in 1636), retold in Spanish prose in 14 chapters that cover all three acts. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tenses and want to go further: sentences of about 12 words, the past subjunctive, the conditional and the pluperfect, and plenty of reported speech. You will learn the vocabulary of the court, prison, honor and war, si clauses about unreal situations, and the vosotros and courtly vos forms of Golden Age Spanish.
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