Helen Edmundson adapted
Anna Karenina, The Mill on the Floss and
War and Peace for the much-loved touring theatre, Shared Experience. She also wrote the National Theatre's enormously successful dramatisation of
Coram Boy, seen there at Christmas 2005 and 2006.
Calderon (Pedro Calderon de la Barca 1600-81), a later contemporary of Shakespeare, Cervantes and Lope de Vega, is the foremost dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age and author of over a hundred plays of all kinds.