Fuenteovejuna: A Dual-Language Book (Dual Eng/Sph) by Lope de Vega; Stanley Appelbaum
	List Price:   $12.95 Unit Price:   $10.36 You Save:   $2.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   0486420922 ISBN-13:   9780486420929 Publisher:   Dover Series:   Dual-Language Bks. Category:   Spanish Books, Dual Language Pub. Date:   June 2002 Pages:   171 Format:   Trade Paper
Awards
2007  Bluebonnet Award  Winner!  2004  Pura Belpre Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) FICTION_GENERAL
Description/Notes
Edited and translated afresh by Stanley Appelbaum this version of Lope de Vega's classical tale of justice, revenge and the power of the people will introduce a new generation to one of the finest works to be written in Castellano. From the golden age of the Spanish theater comes this captivating seventeenth-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Based on a historical incident, Fuenteovejuna takes its name from the Andalusian town of its setting. This edition features an informative introduction with background on Spanish theater of the era 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. A captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. This edition features an informative introduction with background on Spanish theater of the era as well as on the dramatist's career and on the play itself. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish.