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To Love Beyond Death
A tragedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Translated from the Spanish by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance:
Marta Albalá Pelegrín
Paul Cella
Barbara Fuchs
Rafael Jaime
Robin Kello
Jennifer L. Monti
Laura Muñoz
Javier Patiño
Payton Phillips Quintanilla
Kathryn Renton
Kenny Sanchez
Rhonda Sharrah
Cheché Silveyra
Chelsey Smith
With:
Madera Gabriela Allan
Samuel Buse
Sierra Polzin
Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021
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To Love Beyond Death dramatizes the moment when ethnic, religious, and cultural differences turned Spanish subjects against one another in the 1560’s Rebellion of the Alpujarra. When the Crown attempts to eradicate Andalusi culture from Spain, the Moriscos—Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity, as well as their descendants—are put into an impossible position, and turn to armed resistance. The tragic story of the Morisco Tuzaní’s search for revenge after the death of his beloved Clara is as much about love and devotion as it is about civil war, destruction, and the violent emergence of a modern nation.