Tres Comedias Ejemplares: Fuenteovejuna; el Caballero de Olmedo; el Castigo Sin Venganza

Name: Tres Comedias Ejemplares: Fuenteovejuna; el Caballero de Olmedo; el Castigo Sin Venganza
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ISBN: 9780192833372

ISBN-10: 0192833375

ISBN-13: 9780192833372

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lope de Vega, Gwynne Edwards

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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.…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction


The Staging of Golden Age Plays


Translator's Note


Select Bibliography


Chronology of Lope De Vega's Life


Fuente Ovejuna


The Characters of the Play








The Knight from Olmedo (el Caballero De Olmedo): A Tragicomedy*


The Characters of the Play











Punishment Without Revenge (el Castigo Sin Venganza): A Tragedy*


The Characters of the Play











Explanatory Notes