A Trilogia das Barcas
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A Trilogia das Barcas is a series of one-act dramatic plays with allegorical characters by Portuguese playwright and poet Gil Vicente. Specialists classify them as morality plays even though they rese
Frontispiece of the Auto da Moralidade, or Gil Vicente's "Auto da Barca do Inferno"
Autos sacramentales
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Autos sacramentales are a form of dramatic literature which is unique to Spain and Hispanic America, though in some respects similar in character to the old Morality plays of England.
A Trilogia das Barcas
…an archbishop and, finally, the pope. In this order, they are all condemned to the Ship of Hell for their lives of sin and oppression of the poor. Auto (art) Portugal in the Age of Discovery…
First page of El villano en su rincón, an auto sacramental by Lope de Vega first published in 1617.
Photo from the Auto Sacramental de la Resurrección, known to the locals in Hinojos where it is performed, as "Los Abrazos," or, The Hugs.