El lindo don Diego : Comedia by Agustín Moreto

"El lindo don Diego: Comedia" by Agustín Moreto is a comedy published in 1662. When Don Tello arranges marriages for his two daughters without consulting them, one daughter faces disaster: her assigned groom, Don Diego, is an insufferably vain and ridiculous figurón. With the help of a clever servant, an elaborate deception unfolds to free her from this match, involving fake nobility, accusations of infidelity, and near-duels. This masterpiece of Spanish Golden Age theater satirizes vanity through a pompous suitor hilariously blind to his own absurdity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Moreto, Agustín, 1618-1669
Title El lindo don Diego : Comedia
Original Publication Madrid: CALPE, 1920.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_lindo_don_Diego
Credits Ramón Pajares Box. (This book was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive / Fons S. Gili Gaya / Universitat de Lleida.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language Spanish
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Comedy plays
Subject Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700
Subject Nobility -- Spain -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 76276
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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