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Book Fuenteovejuna

Download or read book Fuenteovejuna written by Lope de Vega and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish. /div

Book Great Spanish Plays in English Translation

Download or read book Great Spanish Plays in English Translation written by Angel Flores and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly varied collection of 10 plays from 16th through 20th centuries. The Vigilant Sentinel by Miguel de Cervantes; Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega; Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca; Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, 6 more. Preface by John Gassner. Introduction and notes on each play.

Book Lope de Vega  Fuente Ovejuna

Download or read book Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna written by and published by Hispanic Classics. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Historical Elements of Lope de Vega s Fuente Ovejuna

Download or read book The Historical Elements of Lope de Vega s Fuente Ovejuna written by Claude E. Anibal and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fuente Ovejuna

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lope de Vega
  • Publisher : Barrons Educational Series Incorporated
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 9780812003086
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna written by Lope de Vega and published by Barrons Educational Series Incorporated. This book was released on 1969 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The townspeople of Fuente Ovejuna take vengeance on their comendador for his cruelty; they kill him and the whole town takes the blame. With this play, based on historical facts that occurred during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabela, Lope de Vega transforms a piece of history into living things. The author manages to write a masterpiece whose protagonist is the entire town.

Book Fuente ovejuna

Download or read book Fuente ovejuna written by Lope de Vega and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fuente Ovejuna   Lost in a Mirror  It Serves Them Right

Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror It Serves Them Right written by Lope De Vega and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuenteovejuna: The play is based upon a historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna in Castile, in 1476. While under the command of the Order of Calatrava, a commander, Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, mistreated the villagers, who banded together and killed him. When a magistrate sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon arrived at the village to investigate, the villagers, even under the pain of torture, responded only by saying "Fuenteovejuna did it."

Book Fuenteovejuna

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lope de Vega
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 0300168721
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Fuenteovejuna written by Lope de Vega and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lope de Vega’s masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega “single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre,” writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays.Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village to admit to the premeditated murder of a tyrannical ruler. Lope masterfully employs the tragicomic conventions of the Spanish comedia as he leavens the central dilemma of the peasant lovers, Laurencia and Frondoso, with the shenanigans of Mengo, the gracioso or clown. Based on an actual historical incident, Fuenteovejuna offers a paean to collective responsibility and affirmation of the timeless values of justice and kindness.Translator G. J. Racz preserves the nuanced voice and structure of Lope de Vega’s text in this first English translation in analogical meter and rhyme. Roberto González Echevarría surveys the history of Fuenteovejuna, as well as Lope’s enormous literary output and indelible cultural imprint. Racz’s compelling translation and González Echevarría’s rich framework bring this timeless Golden Age drama alive for a new generation of readers and performers.

Book Fuente Ovejuna

Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna written by Steve Gooch and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Major Plays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lope de Vega
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 1999-01-21
  • ISBN : 0191605360
  • Pages : 680 pages

Download or read book Three Major Plays written by Lope de Vega and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-01-21 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. Fuente Ovejuna, based on Spanish history, and revealing how tyranny leads to rebelliion, is perhaps his best-known play. The Knight from Olmedo is a moving dramatization of impetuous and youthful passion which ends in death. Punishment without Revenge, Lope's most powerful tragedy, centres on the illicit relationship of a young wife with her stepson and the revenge of a dishonoured husband. These three plays, grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish, vivid and intended for performance, embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Playing the King

Download or read book Playing the King written by Melveena McKendrick and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Lope's theatre, which will affect the way in which the comedia in general is read. It spans Lope's literary career, discussing (pseudo-)historical, tragic and peasant plays in order to show Lope's texts as complex negotiations between author and public, between conservatism and subversion, between representations of the ideal of kingship and its political reality, in a period of social and political change. Drawing on contemporary Spanish political philosophy, McKendrick shows that far from glorifying monarchy and advocating absolutism (the orthodox view in the Hispanic world), Lope's political plays constitute an informed critiqueof kingship; she also challenges the received wisdom that the comedia was an instrument of stage and that its playwrights were the conscious propagandists of an aristocratic elite. With the help of insights and models provided by the speech act theory, the stratagems and techniques utilised by Lope to follow the path of prudence between the acceptable and the unacceptable in political commentary in the commercial theatre are scrutinised, illustrating how richly nuanced texts produce not an ideologically monolithic and complacent drama but one which is at once politically anxious and probing. MELVEENA MCKENDRICK is Professor of Spanish Literature, Culture and Societyat the University of Cambridge.

Book Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics

Download or read book Life Is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Translations of four great Spanish dramas: Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream ; Miguel de Cervantes Siege of Numantia ; Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna ; Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville .

Book Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror

Download or read book Fuente Ovejuna Lost in a Mirror written by Lope De Vega and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. Both plays are highly charged emotional works, full of Lope de Vega’s vitality. This adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna was performed in Declan Donnellan’s directorial debut at the Royal National Theatre.

Book Fuenteovejuna  or Like Sheep to Water

Download or read book Fuenteovejuna or Like Sheep to Water written by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1476. Famine and unrest haunt the countryside. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand have joined their kingdoms to become the newly unified country of Spain. But the forces of King Alfonso of Portugal are threatening their new nation. Now, the Order of the Knights of Calatrava is questioning its allegiance to the new king and queen, bringing the young country to the brink of civil war…

Book The Tears of Sovereignty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Lorenz
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2013-06-26
  • ISBN : 0823251306
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Tears of Sovereignty written by Philip Lorenz and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today.

Book The Comedia in English

Download or read book The Comedia in English written by Susan Paun De García and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bringing of Spanish seventeenth-century verse plays to the contemporary English-speaking stage involves a number of fundamental questions. Are verse translations preferable to prose, and if so, what kind of verse? To what degree should translations aim to be 'faithful'? Which kinds of plays 'work', and which do not? Which values and customs of the past present no difficulties for contemporary audiences, and which need to be decoded in performance?Which kinds of staging are suitable, and which are not? To what degree, if any, should one aim for 'authenticity' in staging? In this volume, a group of translators, directors, and scholars explores these and related questions."--Jacket