Author: Rodolfo Usigli
- Fiction
- Editorial Porrúa
- ISBN: 9789700764030
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

One of a trilogy of plays written to demythologize key moments in Mexican history, "Corona de sombra" deals with the tragic period of imperial rule by Maximilian and Carlota, European royalty who are presented as benign but completely misguided in their attempts to govern a country about which they knew almost nothing.