El castigo sin venganza

El castigo sin venganza has become an essential classic of our theater with full rights. Inspired by a real case, El castigo sin venganza is a tragic piece about love, honor, and the weight of social conventions. The Duke of Ferrara, accustomed to leading a dissolute life, marries Cassandra, whom he soon abandons to continue his nocturnal forays. Meanwhile, between the young wife and Federico, the duke's bastard son, the love that will drag them to an inexorable destiny grows. Determined that no one dispute his throne as the best playwright of the time, a sixty-year-old Lope de Vega put all his efforts into giving this work a great thematic, rhythmic and formal richness centered on its three main characters. The result is one of the best tragedies of the European theater.