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Three Judgements in One

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 6m

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Gwynne Edwards

Three Judgements in One
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Translated by Gwynne Edwards

Mendo, the King's ambassador, is captured by a group of outlaws. Spared his life by the leader, Lope, Mendo offers to obtain Lope's pardon and effects a reconciliation between Lope and his father. A love rivalry and tensions with his father lead to L…

Three Judgements in One

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    4w, 6m
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Mendo, the King's ambassador, is captured by a group of outlaws. Spared his life by the leader, Lope, Mendo offers to obtain Lope's pardon and effects a reconciliation between Lope and his father. A love rivalry and tensions with his father lead to Lope fleeing: Mendo, now Chief Justice to the King, arrests him. In the accumulating darkness of the final act the central characters ponder on their individual contributions to Lope's death.
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  • Time Period 17th Century
  • Setting Various simple settings

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Gwynne Edwards

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