The best mayor, the king is a play by Félix Lope de Vega.

It is an honest villain drama, of those whose theme is the honor of a peasant (this time not rich, but hidalgo), who has to defend himself from the abuses of a noble aristocrat.

This work continues to attract the attention of critics because it is a paradigmatic piece among the works of Lope de Vega. Its importance lies not only in the purity of its dramatic lines, but also in the development of fundamental themes of the Comedy: the tyranny of the powerful, the honesty and suffering of the peasants and the inevitable imposition of justice by the king . The presence of these characters, the king, the noble and the villain, leads us to a clearly feudal vision that in addition to shaping the social structure of the comedies of historical and rural themes, provides us with a reflection on an important stage of development of our society.