{"id":7890,"date":"2021-08-10T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/the-shoemakers-prodigious-wife\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T06:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T06:38:35","slug":"the-shoemakers-prodigious-wife","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/the-shoemakers-prodigious-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

The farce for people, conceived almost as a ballet, of The Shoemaker\u2019s Prodigious Wife: a violent farce in two acts\u00a0(La zapatera prodigiosa)<\/em> resorts to a theme that is not new in literature, that of a young woman married to an older man. The play is distributed in two acts preceded by a prolog by the author.<\/p>\n

In the first act,<\/strong> the Shoemaker\u2019s Wife appears in a constant argument with her husband, the Shoemaker. She regrets having married him, being so young and having such good looks. She shows a rebellious attitude with respect to what is expected of a married woman, reproaching the neighbors for their gossip, answering rudely to her husband and listening to all the men who came to flatter her. The only person she treats well is a child who visits her and brings her news of the gossip in the street. The Shoemaker, fed up with his wife’s attitude, decides to leave home.<\/p>\n

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Three of the figurines drawn by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca for The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife \/ Photo: FGL Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the second act,<\/strong> the Shoemakers\u2019 Wife, now alone, has turned her house into a tavern and serves drinks to the same young men who wanted to conquer her from the beginning, including the Mayor. Her personality remains the same, but she is not willing to be conquered by anyone, as she has decided to remain faithful to her husband whom she has realized she loved and misses. Meanwhile, the townspeople continue to criticize her and even sing songs with her story. One day a puppeteer arrives in the village with his rolled-up poster carrying the \u201cAlleluias of the meek shoemaker and the Fierabras of Alexandria\u201d and other stories to tell the people. It is about the Shoemaker in disguise. In the conversation between the Shoemaker\u2019s Wife and the puppeteer in the tavern, they confess the love they each feel for the husband and wife who has abandoned them.<\/strong> Meanwhile, the Shoemaker’s Wife\u2019s suitors fight in the street and the whole town blames her. Finally, the Shoemaker reveals his true identity and the play ends with the two of them happy to be together again and ready to defend themselves from the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7893,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7890","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}