La dama boba

La dama boba (given various titles in English including The Lady Simpleton, The Lady Boba: a Woman of Little Sense, ''Lady Nitwit,^[1] The Lady-Fool) is a 1613 comedy by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It is one of the earliest examples of the "comedia palatina" subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.

Translations

The Lady Simpleton Max Oppenheimer, Jr. Lawrence, KS: Coronado 1976
Lady Nitwit trans. William I. Oliver Editorial Bilingüe, 1998
Wit's end: an adaptation of Lope de Vega's La dama boba Edward H. Friedman 2000
The Lady Boba: a Woman of Little Sense David Johnston 2013

Adaptations

1939 - La dama boba (opera). Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari set the play as an opera in 1939.^[2]
1969 - La dama boba Estudio 1
1980 - La dama boba Estudio 1
2006 - La dama boba (film)

References

^ The Guardian: A Lady of Little Sense – review Ustinov Studio, Bath "Lope de Vega's romantic comedy has something in common with the Taming of the Shrew, and gets a lively performance here, but it leaves a somewhat acrid aftertaste"]
^ The New International Year Book 1939 - published 1940 Page 513 A new work by Wolf-Ferrari, La Dama Boba, with a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti based upon a Lope de Vega comedy, was produced in the Teatro della Scala in Milan February 1, under Umberto Berretoni, with ...

Alejandro Gadea Raga y Mimma de Salvo, "Jerónima de Burgos y Pedro de Valdés: biografía de un matrimonio de representantes en la España del Seiscientos", Diablotexto: Revista de critica literaria, no. 4–5, 1997–1998, pp. 143–176. ISSN 1134-6302.
Mimma de Salvo, "Sobre el reparto de La dama boba de Lope de Vega", Voz y letra: Revista de literatura, vol. 11, no. 1, 2000, pp. 69–91. ISSN 1130-3271.
Mimma de Salvo, "Notas sobre Lope de Vega y Jerónima de Burgos: un estado de la cuestión", en Rafael Beltrán Llavador (coord.), Homenaje a Luis Quirante, vol. 1, 2003, pp. 141–156. (Estudios teatrales). ISBN 84-370-5652-7.

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[1] The Guardian: A Lady of Little Sense – review Ustinov Studio, Bath "Lope de Vega's romantic comedy has something in common with the Taming of the Shrew, and gets a lively performance here, but it leaves a somewhat acrid aftertaste"]

[2] The New International Year Book 1939 - published 1940 Page 513 A new work by Wolf-Ferrari, La Dama Boba, with a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti based upon a Lope de Vega comedy, was produced in the Teatro della Scala in Milan February 1, under Umberto Berretoni, with ...

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