Abstract
Lo cierto por lo dudoso (published in 1635 in Lope de Vega’s Parte veinte), comedy pertaining to the cycle of works about king Pedro I of Castile, has received little attention. If, from a textual point of view, the play has enjoyed some success, with numerous reprints until the twentieth century, its fortune in the Spanish stage is due, rather, to the nineteenth-century adaptation Lo cierto por lo dudoso o la mujer firme by Vicente Rodriguez de Arellano. It was staged in 1803 in Madrid Teatro de la Cruz, with the famous actress Rita Luna in the role of Dona Juana, the leading lady. This essay analyzes Rodriguez de Arellano’s version and his influence on nineteenth-century stage.
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