Word: ovejuna
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...FUENTE OVEJUNA by Lope de Vega...
...call to collective action and the lesson that in unity there is strength are not modernist interpolations. They are inherent in the original and in the actual events it 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...