Lady Nitwit/La Dama Boba
by Lope de Vega
Released: 1998
Lope de Vega, the most renowned playwright of the Spanish Golden Age (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), was said to have written over 1800 plays in verse. Beyond that he wrote novels, pastoral romances, epic poems, and collections of verse. His life outside letters was so filled with romantic escapades, marital infidelities, and political and artistic disputes that "the lives of his heroes pale by comparison
Lady Nitwit/La dama boba is a perceptive character study of a female scatterbrain made wise in the ways of the world through the power of love. The plot moves rapidly from one delightfully comic situation to another, evoking the contradictions encountered in the course of love.