The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria: A Drama of Early Christian RomeCalderón de la Barca, Pedro
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The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria: A Drama of Early Christian Rome
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Christian martyrs -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Act 3, Scene 1. After the line "The two lover saints of Heaven." there
are forty lines of dialog between Escarpin and Polemius. In typical
Escarpine style, it contains a story. Here is a free translation: A
man is on trial for killing his father and loving his mother. The judge
berates the lawyer, "How dare you defend a man who has committed the
worst possible crime." The lawyer replies, "I disagree, your Honor, for
to kill his mother and love his father would, indeed, have been a worse
crime."
Act 3, Scene 2. There is a break in the asonante verse at the line
"They the open country seek".
Act 3, Scene 2. In the line "So part pagan and part christian", near
the end of the scene, Christian is not capitalized in the printed
source.
Note 3. The scene actually ends on page 17 rather than 25 in the source
publication. This page numbering problem also occurs in Note 12 and
probably corresponds to a draught version of the publication--a detail
not caught in the final editing. The last phrase of this note was
actually printed: "the fu ll consonant rhyme." As no letters seem to
logically fit in the empty space between "fu" and "ll," I have replaced
this with the word "full" in the text above.
Note 12. This refers to Note 5, which is actually on page 12 in the
source publication, rather than page 21.
Note 13. The Spanish text in the section of the drama noted is in
five-lined stanzas. However, although Mr. MacCarthy's English generally
follows that metre here, he does break the format in a several places.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus
and Daria, by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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