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Updated: May 8, 2025
He had expiated his Cromwellian backslidings by the "Astraea Redux," and the "Annus Mirabilis." He had risen to high favor with the king. His tragedies in rhyming couplets were all the vogue. Already his fellow-playwrights deemed their success as fearfully uncertain, unless they had secured, price three guineas, a prologue or epilogue from the Laureate.
But by the time Shakespeare had reached his fortieth birthday every one of his fellow-playwrights round that table had rushed to his death. The short stout gentleman who is fond of making jokes, and not particular whom he confides them to, has heard another good story about Tarleton.
Calderon, who was the most imaginative of the dramatists of Spain, was perhaps the least inventive of them all, contentedly availing himself of the situations, and even of the complete plots of his more fertile fellow-playwrights; and two of his most characteristic dramas, for example, two in which he has most adequately exprest himself, the 'Alcalde of Zalamea' and the 'Physician of His Own Honor, are borrowed almost bodily from his fecund contemporary Lope de Vega.
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