''La dama boba'' (given various titles in English including ''The Lady Simpleton'', ''The Lady Boba: a Woman of Little Sense'', 'Lady Nitwit'', ''The Lady-Fool'') is a 1613 comedy by the Spanish playwright

Lope de Vega Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio ( , ; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature ...

. 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) ''La dama boba'' is a commedia lirica by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in 3 acts to a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti, after Lope de Vega's 1613 play of the same title. It was premiered 1 February 1939 at La Scala, Milan under :it:Umberto Berrettoni, with ...

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as '' Il segreto di Susanna'' (1909). A number of his works were based on plays ...

set the play as an opera in 1939.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 ... *1969 - La dama boba

Estudio 1 ''Estudio 1'' was a long-running Spanish TV drama series by Televisión Española since 1965 presenting many classic plays for the home audience. It was equivalent to '' :fr:Au théâtre ce soir'' (1966-1985) on TF1 and ''Play of the Month'' (1 ...

*1980 - La dama boba

*2006 -

La dama boba (film) ''The Idiot Maiden'' ( es, La dama boba, links=no) is a 2006 Spanish romantic comedy film directed and written by , consisting of an adaptation of the 1613 play '' A Lady of Little Sense'' by Félix Lope de Vega. It stars Silvia Abascal, Jose Cor ...

References

* 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. . * Mimma de Salvo

''Voz y letra: Revista de literatura'', vol. 11, no. 1, 2000, pp. 69–91. . * Mimma de Salvo

en Rafael Beltrán Llavador (coord.), ''Homenaje a Luis Quirante'', vol. 1, 2003, pp. 141–156. (Estudios teatrales). . 1613 plays Comedy plays Plays by Lope de Vega {{17thC-play-stub