Select one of the following literary works: Lazarillo de Tormes, The Swindler, The Trickster of
Seville, Fuente Ovejuna, Life is a Dream or Don Quixote (the latter for the honors’ section) Attempt to answer the following questions:
Question 1
- Provide a very short summary of the plot (no more than half a page).
- Tell me what the salient themes in this literary work are.
- Analyze two or three of these themes and explain how they reflect the culture, values,
politics, social and economic structures of early modern Spain. You are using these texts as
primary sources. Therefore, your use of them should answer the question: What do they tell you
about the history of Spain?
- Place these works within a specific historical context.