Adaptations
- Opera: "Life Is a Dream by Jonathan Dove (Composer) and Alasdair Middleton (libretist); Directed by Graham Vick. World Premiere by Birmingham Opera Company, Argyle Works, Birmingham on 21st March 2012. www.birminghamopera.org.uk
- Opera: Life Is a Dream by Lewis Spratlan (composer) and James Maraniss (librettist), given its world premiere by the Santa Fe Opera on 24 July 2010.
- Theater: Fever/Dream, a 2009 play by Sheila Callaghan
- Some of the latter lines from Act 2 are sampled in the Jumpstyle song "Que es la Vida" by Martillo Vago.
- Dramatic Novel: "United States of Banana" by Giannina Braschi is based on "Life Is a Dream" from which it takes its hero Segismundo, a Puerto Rico prisoner whose father, the King of the United States of Banana, has imprisoned him in the dungeon of the Statue of Liberty for the crime of having been born; Segismundo's mother died in childbirth (AmazonCrossing, 2011).
- Raúl Ruiz's 1987 film Mémoire des apparences is a partial adaptation of Life Is a Dream (and was distributed under this title in its English-language subtitled version).
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