Lope de Vega: Fuente Ovejuna - Victor Dixon

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.
Fuente Ovejuna , however, is less a history lesson or political tract than an optimistic
moral fable. Spanish text with facing-page translation,
introduction and notes.