| Lady Nitwit/La Dama Boba Contributor(s): Vega, Lope de (Author), De Vega, Lope (Author), Oliver, William I. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0927534746 ISBN-13: 9780927534741 Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ) OUR PRICE: $22.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: La dama boba/Lady Nitwit is an excellent 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, as witnessed in the following scene between the heroine and her would-be lover: Laurencio: ... Just look at the trouble that's come on the heels of your transformation since ... oh, what a plight! ... since Liseo has now gone to ask for your hand again. He's abandoned your sister and is going now to marry you and I am going to die! Would to God you'd never learned to speak. Finea: Laurencio, how am I at fault? I learned all I know inspired by your virtues. Conquered by your compliments, I learned to talk in order to talk to you. I read books, the better to read your letters; I write in order to answer them. Love has been my teacher, love has made me learn, and you are the science I have mastered. What displeases you in this? The dialogue sparkles with humor and repartee. The theme is universal in its appeal, and the treatment given it by Lope has the ring of modernity that makes this play one of the best comedies in his repertory. This edition features a prose translation of the original seventeenth-century play in facing-page format. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama |
| Dewey: 862.3 |
| LCCN: 98-13215 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 7.05" W x 9.99" (1.00 lbs) 182 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drama. In Spanish and English, translated by William I. Oliver. Lope de Vega, the most renowned playwright of the Spanish Golden Age (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), was said to have written over 1,800 plays in verse. His life outside letters was so filled with romantic escapades, marital infidelities, and political and artistic disputes that the lives of his heroes paled 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 from one delightfully comic situation to another, evoking the contradictions encountered in the course of love. The dialogue sparkles with humor and repartee. The ear of the translator always has the actors' and spectators' interests in mind. The wit sparkles. The characterizations are true ... I hope I get to see a production of this translation on stage. It would be a delight -- David Glitz, University of Rhode Island. |