Lope and Play

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Lope verb - To move with a light springing step.

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Play and lope are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play" instead a verb "Lope".

Nearby Words: lop, loped, loping

Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.

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Lope and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lope" instead a verb "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

This trope is known in Spanish as "Fuente Ovejuna", after a famous play of that name and the real history behind it by Baroque Spanish play-writer Lope de Vega.

Source: I Am Spartacus
Lope claimed that he could write an entire play in two days, and, according to his own estimates, wrote a staggering 1500 plays, about a third of which have survived to this day.

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Comendador Guzman in Lope de Vega's play Fuente Ovejuna; eventually the whole town, tired of his abuses, murders him and assumes the guilt collectively.

Source: Feudal Overlord

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