Fuenteovejuna - (Dover Dual Language Spanish) by Lope De Vega (Paperback)

Fuenteovejuna is a captivating seventeenth-century drama of peasantry defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord, based on a historical incident during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.

This edition features an informative introduction with background on Spanish theater in the time of Lope de Vega as well as on the dramatist's career and on the play itself.

The editor and translator has supplied an excellent English prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish for an absolutely complete edition -- not freely adapted, but as close to the meaning of the original text as possible.

Any student of Spanish language or literature will welcome this versatile and well-edited edition of a masterpiece of Spanish drama.