That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in Life's a Dream (La Aida es sue±o), the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderon de la
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams.
