Fuenteovejuna

Author: Lope de Vega
- Poetry / Essay
- Ediciones SM
- ISBN: 9788467528572
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Eduardo de Lamadrid

Spain's most prolific and greatest dramatist, Lope is said to have written more than 400 plays, many of which were comedies of the "capa y espada" (cloak and dagger) variety. Fuenteovejuna is a historical comedy, based on an actual happening, set against a background of historical fact, and peopled with peasants, royalty and a villanous nobleman. It is startling today for its use of a collective protagonist, the town of Fuenteovejuna, and its overt populism.

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