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Lope de Vega: Fuente Ovejuna

Text, Translation, Introduction and Notes by 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. 232p, b/w illus (Aris & Phillips 1989, reprinted 2005)

Table of Contents

Introduction
The characters
The play in performance
The Spanish text
The English translation
Notes
bibliography
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
ACT THREE
Text variations
Rades y Andrada, Chronicle of the Three Military Orders

Biographical note

Victor Dixon (Professor of Spanish, Trinity College, Dublin) is an experienced actor and producer. He refined his translation in a series of performances by the Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies in Dublin. His edition thus combines scholarly accuracy with a performable translation and reveals the glory of the classical Spanish theatre to students and theatre audiences alike.

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