Legacy in Arts and Letters
The story of Queen Joanna attracted authors, composers and artists of the 19th century romanticist movement, with her qualities of unrequited love and moral fidelity. Later authors often focus on the grief-stricken woman and her mental illness. An incomplete list of these works follows:
- Felipe el Hermoso (1845) — Eusebio Asquerino and Gregorio Romero. A play in four acts.
- La Locura de Amor (1855) — Manuel Tamayo y Baus. Play
- Doña Juana la Loca (late 19th Cent.) — Emilio Serrano. Opera.
- Juana la Loca (1877) — Francisco Pradilla. Painting (shown above). Currently in the Prado museum of Madrid, Spain.
- Locura de amor (1948) — Juan de Orduña. Film.
- The Prisoner of Tordesillas (1959) — Lawrence Schoonover. Novel.
- La Loca (1979) — Gian Carlo Menotti. Opera.
- Mariner by the playwright Don Nigro. Play.
- Las Ruinas del Corazon (1999) — Eric Gamalinda. Poem.
- Juana la Loca (2001) — directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Pilar López de Ayala as Joanna, was nominated for 12 Goya Awards, and was released in the US as Mad Love. Based on La Locura de Amor by Manuel Tamayo y Baus.
- El Pergamino de la Seducción (2005) — Gioconda Belli. Novel in Spanish.
- The Last Queen (2007) — C.W. Gortner. Novel in English and Spanish
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