Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega

"Fuente Ovejuna" by Lope de Vega is a play written between 1612-1614. Based on actual historical events, the drama unfolds in a Spanish village during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. When a powerful commander's tyranny escalates to brutal violence against the townspeople, the entire community rises in unified rebellion. Their collective defiance and unwavering solidarity lead to a confrontation with royal justice, testing whether their desperate act will be condemned or vindicated by the Crown. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635
Title Fuente Ovejuna
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenteovejuna Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenteovejuna
Credits Roberto Marabini, Carlos Colon, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Spanish
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700
Subject Fuenteovejuna (Spain) -- History -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 60198
Release Date
Last Update Oct 17, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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