Scene from Lope de Vega's Castelvines y Monteses (= Romeo & Juliet).

Lope de Vega's plays include one based on the same story by Mateo Bandello as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, called Castelvines y Monteses. Here Julia is apparently backed by Celia (= a youthful Nurse) and Otavio (her official fiancé = Paris), while Roselo's companion is probably Marin (= Mercutio). This Spanish version mostly ends happily, with only the death of Julia's unloved fiancé, Theobaldo's son Otavio, unlike Shakespeare's rendering. This resolution results mostly because Lope's Julia is more mature and cunning than Juliet. It has rarely been performed in Spain, but Javier Vallejo in el Pais for 13/11/2004 identifies a production that day at el Teatro de la Resad, and says it has been produced in Argentina, Italy, Greece and Russia. It was to be performed at the 36th annual Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival in March 2011 at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso, Texas. A detailed analysis of the two scripts can be found in this site at the end of the single-play bibliography for Romeo and Juliet. This image comes from a translation of the script by F. W. Cosens, London: Chiswick Press, 1869.