''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. 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
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
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 ...
*2006 -
La dama boba (film)
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
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