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
References
- Alejandro Gadea Raga y Mimma de Salvo, "Jerónima de Burgos y Pedro de Valdés: biografÃÂa de un matrimonio de representantes en la España del Seiscientos", Diablotexto: Revista de critica literaria, no. 4âÂÂ5, 1997âÂÂ1998, pp. 143âÂÂ176. .
- 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. 69âÂÂ91. .
- 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. 141âÂÂ156. (Estudios teatrales). .