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Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under torture.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • The characters
  • The play in performance
  • The Spanish text
  • The English translation
  • Notes
  • bibliography
  • ACT ONE
  • ACT TWO
  • ACT THREE
  • Text variations
  • Rades y Andrada, Chronicle of the Three Military Orders

Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 12/05/1989
      ISBN13: 9780856683282, 978-0856683282
      ISBN10: 0856683280
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under torture.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • The characters
      • The play in performance
      • The Spanish text
      • The English translation
      • Notes
      • bibliography
      • ACT ONE
      • ACT TWO
      • ACT THREE
      • Text variations
      • Rades y Andrada, Chronicle of the Three Military Orders

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