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.
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.
Gil Vicente
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Gil Vicente, called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plaut
Autos sacramentales
…Miguel Hernández, with Quién te ha visto y quién te ve y sombra de lo que eras, wrote autos sacramentales and after them, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Gil Vicente (c.1465 – 1536/1537): wrote in Portuguese and Spanish; considered joint-father of Spanish Drama with Juan de la Encina; wrote very early autos. Juan…
Statue atop the pediment of D. Maria II National Theatre
Guimarães, one of the places where it is claimed the dramatist was born
Lisbon: Jerónimos Monastery
Auto de Mofina Mendes.