La dama boba (given various titles in English including The Lady Simpleton, The Lady Boba: a Woman of Little Sense, ''Lady Nitwit,[1] The Lady-Fool) is a 1613 comedy by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It is one of the earliest examples of the "comedia palatina" subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.