La jeso de knabinoj: Triakta proza komedio

by Leandro Fernández de Moratín

"La jeso de knabinoj: Triakta proza komedio" by Leandro Fernández de Moratín is a three-act prose comedy written in 1801 and premiered in 1806. Young Francisca, raised in a convent, faces an arranged marriage to the nearly sixty-year-old Don Diego, despite her secret love for a soldier she knows as Don Félix. When a letter exposes the truth, her domineering mother insists on obedience while Don Diego must choose between claiming his bride and honoring reason over authority in matters of the heart.