The Widow from Valencia is a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, who is considered part of the Spanish Golden Age of literature. The play was written circa 1600 as a result of Lope's visit to the city with his new patron, the future Count of Lemos. They were there for the marriage of the King Philip III with Margaret of Austria. However, the play was not published until 1620 in the fifteenth part of his Comedias, where it is dedicated to Marcia Leonarda, that is to say, to Lope's beloved Marta de Nevares.