Love after death

"Love after death" - a brilliant play by the largest Spanish playwright of the Baroque period, Pedro Calderon de la Barqui (1600-1681). The play takes readers in those tragic days of the 16th century, when the Moriscas - forcibly baptized Moors inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula - raised an uprising against the Spanish government. The military actions make it impossible for the future happiness of the co-morks Alvaro Toussani and Donna Clara Malek to be betrothed to each other. Now they will meet only when Clara is on her deathbed ...