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Fuenteovejuna
Fuenteovejuna () is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. First published in Madrid in 1619, as part of "Docena Parte de las Comedias de Lope de Vega Carpio" ("Volume 12 of the Collected plays of Lope de Vega Carpio"), the play is believed to have been written between 1612 and 1614. The play is based upon a historical incident that took place in the village of Fuenteovejuna in Castile, now called Fuente Obejuna in Andalusia, in 1476. While under the command
the leadership of its Grand Master, 20-year-old Rodrigo Téllez Girón, who supported the claims to the throne by Alfonso and Juana. The city was of strategic importance due to its location near the border of Castile. It was during this invasion that Commander Gómez de Guzmán was killed by the villagers of Fuenteovejuna after he treated them poorly. After no single guilty party was found, Ferdinand pardoned the villagers from Fuenteovejuna.
Summary.
The first act opens in Almagro at the home of the Grand Master of the Order