Question

A character in a play by this author bets a king that if he can make the king laugh, he gets a hundred gold coins, but if he fails, his teeth will be pulled out. The antagonist of a play by this author stages a duel so his opponent can verify the beauty of a girl hiding in an attic. One play by this author opens with a woman arriving near a mountain on a “wild hippogriff.” The protagonist (15[1])of a play (-5[1])by this author is lauded by the newly arrived (*) king after hanging the man who raped his daughter Isabel. A man in a play by this author recognizes his daughter by the sword he gave to her mother in Russia. In that play by this author, Rosaura finds the imprisoned Prince of Poland, Segismundo. For 10 points, the plays The Mayor of Zalamea and Life is a Dream are by what Spanish Golden Age playwright? ■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Pedro Calderón de la Barca (The lead-in is The Surgeon of his Honor.)
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