Fuenteovejuna

Lope de Vega · 1619 CE · Play · Spanish · Renaissance

The commander of the Order of Calatrava treats the village of Fuente Ovejuna as his property, and the abuses reach the point of breaking up a wedding to take the bride. Laurencia comes back to the men of the village and tells them what their silence has made them. From that scene on the village acts as one body, and the crown's investigators arrive to find out who did it.

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