Lope de Vega's 'Fuenteovejuna' Gets Reset in a Modern Office
Fuente Obejuna is a town in Spain whose inhabitants in 1476 rose up against the man who ruled them, killing him. The king sent a judge to investigate the crime, but everybody of whom he asked the identity of the killer gave the same answer: Fuente Obejuna. The crime went unpunished. More than a century later the great Spanish dramatist Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio turned this supposedly true historical e…