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Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega.Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel.Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m.23 October Saturday
Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega. Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel. Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m. Black tie opening. 22 October Friday...
Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega.Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel.Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 2 and 8p.m.24 October Sunday
...seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered for his play along the Wall, was scheduled to come...
...portrays. The villagers of Fuente Ovejuna took collective responsibility for the murder. When royal investigators sought the name of the culprit, villagers swore that the whole town did it. Moreover, politics never obscures the melodrama, a thoroughly satisfying tale of robberies, rapes and other cruelties ferociously avenged. If Lope de Vega cannot rival his contemporary Shakespeare for depth and subtlety of character, he is surely the Bard's equal for rumbustious plot. (And vastly his superior for productivity: whereas Shakespeare wrote 37 or so plays -- authorship of some is disputed -- Lope de Vega is credited with about...