Visions of Death

La Mojiganga de las visiones de la muerte , by Calderón de la Barca, is a burlesque metaphor for the man of the Baroque.

Single act

(Inside music, and castanets and instruments, and out comes the Carter.)

Music: Go party, go on tour,
go dancing, go chatting,
Come and go the mojiganga.

Carter: The Lord be praised,
that the mojiganga is over, 5
and that we will be able to leave.
Mr. Author…

(The author exits.)

Author: Well, what do we have?

Carter: That long time that the car is waiting,
and this poor cattle bursting.
And I vote for… But to swear I do not want, 10
that it is improper to swear by a carter.
We fly from here;
who already sees that they are there waiting for him
before noon,
And it’s more of the two.

Author: The Company 15
It’s barely over,
for it is still on the stage,
and for a league and a half…

Carter: If there were no
Done you the concert way
than doing the Car here in the morning, 20
I would do him there in the afternoon, which is flat
that he did not hurry up; but they already take time
two hours more than those that await you there,
and the mules are without eating, surrendered,
and for life…

Author: Let’s leave the porvidas. 25

Carretero: Do you not know that you are the heir
of lifetime swears a carter?

[A los comediantes.]

Let’s get from here, gentlemen, let’s finish.

(Inside.)

[Todos]: Give us room to get naked
the costumes with which the Auto is recited. 30

Author: No one to undress needs,
for if they are to begin then in arriving,
in dressing and undressing
The afternoon will pass.
And it is not good that a Council waits us 35
so noble and so bizarre.
To the car everyone as they are!

Fragment of the work