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
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.
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
Gil Vicente
…Alma mater University of Salamanca (assumed) Occupations Playwright, goldsmith (disputed) Writing career Subjects Religion, satires Notable works A Trilogia das Barcas, Farsa de Inês Pereira, Monólogo do Vaqueiro Literary movement Renaissance humanism Portuguese Renaissance Gil Vicente (Portuguese: ; c. 1465 – c…
Frontispiece of the Auto da Moralidade, or Gil Vicente's "Auto da Barca do Inferno"