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    Fuente Ovejuna: Full Text and Introduction

    By Lope de Vega

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    One of the best known Spanish Golden Age plays, Fuente Ovejuna tells the compelling story of revolution. When the townspeople unite against the authoritarian leadership, the quiet town of Fuente Ovejuna is thrown into chaos and a prominent figure is murdered. As authorities enter the scene to try to find the perpetrator, what happens next is one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama. Known for its stirring depiction and its critique of the abuse of power.

    The play is based upon a true historical incident that took place in Spain in 1476. From the prodigiously talented playwright Lope de Vega, arguably the most influential dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. Initially published in Madrid in 1619, Lope de Vega's radical play Fuente Ovejuna is believed to have been written between 1612 and 1614.

    This edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is an English translation by Laurence Boswell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781788502429
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    Fuente Ovejuna: Full Text and Introduction
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    Lope de Vega

    Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was Spain's first great playwright. The most prolific dramatist in the history of the theatre, he is believed to have written some 1500 plays of which about 470 survive. He established the conventions for the Spanish comedia in the last decade of the 16th century, influenced the development of the zarzuela, and wrote numerous autosacramentales.The son of an embroiderer, he took part in the conquest of Terceira in the Azores (1583) and sailed with the Armada in 1588, an event that inspired his epic poem La Dragentea (1597). Among his many notable works are Fuenteovejuna (c. 1614) in which villagers murder their tyrannous feudal lord and are saved by the king's intervention, and El castigo sin venganza, in which a licentious duke maintains his public reputation by killing his adulterous wife and her illegitimate son.

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