The Phantom Lady Themes, social implications and characteristics of the play have always been the three main concerns that theater critics have when analyzing or criticizing a play. In this case, The Phantom Lady is the intriguing story of a young woman, Angela, who is forced by her brothers to cry in isolation, and then begs for help from Don Manuel, who saves her. This fascinating work conveys a wide range of different themes that the author, Calderon de La Barca supports, among these we find nobility, courtesy, love and jealousy, no other theme has been widely shown, and the greatest shown it was that of the nobility together with courteous actions. To demonstrate these themes, the show must use a stage, dialogue, costumes, and stage effects such as lighting; interaction with the audience was crucial to telling the story to the audience, along with the scene and its effects. Finally, if we compared the implications this story would have in its current time period, compared to the present day, we would find that this story could never actually happen at the moment, as many of the values ​​held before have disappeared as times and beliefs have changed . Play writing is usually associated with feelings and beliefs. In this case, Calderon de La Barca wanted to defend some themes of his play The Phantom Lady, while his central thesis was most likely that of courtesy. The show conveys the message of courtesy very clearly, firstly with the fact that Don Manuel agreed to defend an unknown woman, from Don Luis, the brother of this “unknown” woman who the audience knows as Angela. Furthermore, the theme of courtesy is well represented when Don Luis spares Don Manuel, and also when the former allows Don Luis to go and look for a new sword, after having disarmed his...... middle of paper... .. In theatrical performance, all of these aspects are part of telling a story in a play, and they are also part of conveying a message to the audience, and these are things on which critics have concentrated their efforts to evaluate the theatrical works. In The Phantom Lady, we see sustained themes such as nobility, love and courtesy, we see brilliant stage effects such as lighting, costumes, setting and dialogues that help tell the story and last but not least, we analyze the implications to a story like this it has to do with past times and can be compared to what would happen in modern times. Plays are made up of many different aspects like these, and each aspect is vital to the performance and transmission of the play, because they are not as simple as people believe them to be, they are complex and intriguing to many people who are open-minded. mentality.