Lope premieres comedy
(#LopeEstrenaComedia)
project nominated to the Talía Awards 2023
of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain
in the category of "award from programs of study and knowledge dissemination"
Madrid, October 1613
His Majesty Philip III reigns in Spain, but the real ruler is his favourite, the corrupt Duke of Lerma, who has just bought -with the general approval of his neighbors civil service examination - the town of Arganda. In the Villa y Corte, the Republic of Letters is divided between supporters and detractors of the poetry of Don Luis de Góngora, whose poems culteranos have begun to circulate in manuscript form.
Cervantes has published his Novelas ejemplares this year, but he has not finished writing the promised second part of Don Quixote, which has been awaited since 1605, and Lope de Vega and his circle of friends are busy writing an apocryphal sequel, which will be published the following year under the name of a certain Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda.
For the rest, things continue more or less as usual: famine and depopulation, the economic drain of maintaining armies in Flanders and Italy, the threat of the Turk in the Mediterranean, the harassment of English and Dutch pirates against the fleets bringing silver from the Indies?
These are difficult times. But none of that seems to matter to the people of Madrid. In the streets and in the gossip mills there is no talk of anything else: "Lope premieres a comedy, Lope premieres a comedy...! It is known that the Fénix finished writing it in April, and now the company of Pedro de Valdés is rehearsing it, waiting for the last licenses for its representation to arrive soon. They say it is called La dama boba and that Jerónima de Burgos (wife of Valdés and, at the time, Lope's lover) will play the role of Nise... Those who have had the good fortune to read it also say that the comedy deals with the topic of the Education of women and their role in society. The expectation is tremendous: and there is nothing comparable to attend to a premiere of who has risen, for years, "with the scepter of the comic monarchy", as Cervantes said. Through the streets of Madrid, at average voice so as not to offend the grave ecclesiastics, the passionate fans of the Fénix recite their fervent prayer: "I believe in Lope de Vega almighty, poet of heaven and earth...".
FROM OCTOBER 24 TO 31
in the best social networks...
The project
With this project we intend to reconstruct (with a good historical-documentary base, but also with some touches of fiction) the premiere of La dama boba by Lope de Vega in the year 1613. The project is going to be developed in social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn) on October 24-31, 2022 and we will try to reflect what happened in Madrid those same days, October 24-31, but in 1613: the atmosphere in the days before the performance of the Phoenix play and the premiere itself, which was -presumably- on October 30. The circumstances related to that first performance of La dama boba by Lope de Vega are known to us, because the autograph manuscript of the play is preserved, with all the necessary licenses and approvals.
This will help the students -and also all those who follow us on social networks- to know, in an entertaining but very realistic way, how was a theatrical premiere in the Golden Age and also to deepen in the knowledge of this specific comedy by Lope de Vega, very interesting for raising the topic of the Education of women and their role in society.
In the development of the activity, three temporal planes will alternate, with different narrating voices representing different points of view: 1613, the year of the premiere, where Lope and his contemporaries will be present (his friends and family, his literary rivals and other anonymous characters of Madrid at the time); 1935, when Federico García Lorca premiered in Spain his adaptation of La dama boba, starring Margarita Xirgu; and 2022, already in our times, when a student from high school diploma has to read the Lopesque comedy for her Literature subject , with her reading impressions and reflections.
The team
LIFE AND WORK OF LOPE DE VEGA
Acknowledgements
and credits
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School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra
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Jorge Valeiras (voice)
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María Marcos (videos)
Image gallery
Bibliography
We gather here an essential bibliography on Lope de Vega and La dama boba, and also on the Spanish theater of the Golden Age:
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