A Lady of Little Sense
- For the film adaptation, see La Dama Boba (film).
A Lady of Little Sense, The Lady-Fool, or The Stupid Lady (La dama boba) 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.
In popular culture
Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Ruled Britannia, in which Vega is a central character, depicts him writing the play in 1598, 15 years before he is generally accepted to have written it. This is an apparent butterfly effect of this alternate history's inner logic.
Further reading
- 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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