This article is about the play. For the film, see The Phantom Lady (film).
The Phantom Lady (Spanish: La dama duende) is a play by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was written and performed in 1629 and was published for the first time in the Primera parte de comedias de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1636).[1]
The Phantom Lady is a cloak and sword play (de capa y espada) which follows the plot of the Invisible Mistress. This plot derives from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, but inverts the role of the protagonists. In the plot and in the Spanish play, it is the man's curiosity which leads him to meet and fall in love with the invisible woman; that is, with a woman who is either hidden, veiled or encountered in the dark. The Invisible Mistress plot is already found in Italian novelle by Masuccio Salernitano and Matteo Bandello.[2] Even though Calderón uses elements from Lope de Vega's play La viuda valenciana, his main model is an interpolated story in El soldado Píndaro by Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses (1626).[3] As is common in cloak and sword plays, it is the woman, in this case Doña Ángela, who propels the action. Her objective is to conquer Don Manuel while avoiding the attention of her two brothers, who watch over her. In order to communicate with Don Manuel, the lady uses an ingenious device, which creates an ambiance of supernatural mystery, thus referring to the title of the play.[4]
^Fausta Antonucci, «Contribución al estudio de la historia textual de La dama duende», Criticón, 78, 2000, Toulouse, pp. 109–136. [1]
^More specifically, it appears in the 26th novella by Masuccio and the 25th tale of the fourth part of Bandello's Novelle.Bandello's fourth part was translated into French the same year it was first published (1573). See T. Gwynfor Griffith, Bandello's Fiction, Oxford, 1955, p. 121
^Frederick A. de Armas, The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age, Charlottesville, Biblioteca Siglo de Oro, 1976
^Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros, Calderón, Madrid, Síntesis, 2002, pp. 75–76
PhantomLady is a fictional superheroine appearing in media published by Quality Comics and DC Comics. She was created by the Eisner & Iger studio, one...
ThePhantomLady (Spanish: La dama duende) is a play by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was written and performed in 1629 and was published...
character of the series. She is the alter ego of Moena Shinguji. Her mission is to save the day whenever someone is attacked by one of PhantomLady's mutants...
his mother was a former phantom thief known as thePhantomLady. Kaito Kuroba then takes on the role of Kid after learning the organization is after a...
gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable...
from Novelty Press' Blue Bolt comics PhantomLady: Crime Never Pays (1994) — reprints stories from thePhantomLady#Fox Feature Syndicate & Star Publications...
Phantom Thread is a 2017 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, and...
Yank, and on the cover of Life magazine twice, in 1944 for her work in PhantomLady, and in 1947 for Brute Force. Born in Snoqualmie Falls, Washington to...
The first supposed sighting of thephantomLady Lovibond, on 13 February, 1798, was reported by at least two ships: the Edenbridge, captained by James...
superheroine who appears in the Femforce comic book, published by AC Comics. An adaptation of the Golden Age superhero PhantomLady, she has also been known...
The series Danny Phantom centers on young Danny Fenton and his coming-of-age story as a half-ghost superhero in the town of Amity Park. Over the course...
as a plain housewife but later revealed to have once been the international thief PhantomLady. During a heist in Paris, she fell in love with Toichi Kuroba...
films like A Child is Born (1939), PhantomLady (1944), Lady in the Dark (1944) and Sister Kenny (1946). Helm was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Helm...
Juvenile Delinquency and were cancelled by the end of 1954. In 1954 Farrell acquired the rights to thePhantomLady comic strip series, previously owned by...
1-12, the first opening theme is "Kimi no Matsu Sekai" by Lagoon while the ending theme is "White of Crime" by Revalcy. From episodes 13-24, the second...
cartoonist Tarpé Mills on April 6, 1941; thePhantomLady, introduced in Quality Comics Police Comics #1 (Aug. 1941); the Black Cat, introduced in Harvey Comics'...
short stories in the superhero, crime and humor genres. The first issue of Police Comics featured the debuts of Plastic Man, PhantomLady, Human Bomb, Firebrand...
Global Information