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Something wrong?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 Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights.
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Guimarães, one of the places where it is claimed the dramatist was born
O Monólogo do vaqueiro (Monologue of the Cowherd), as it would have been performed by Gil Vicente himself, according to the vision of the painter Alfredo Roque Gameiro.
Lisbon: Jerónimos Monastery
Auto de Mofina Mendes.
Illustration of the original edition of Auto da Barca do Inferno (Act of the Ship of Hell)
Christmas-related themes, very present in Gil Vicente's works since the first order from Queen Leonor, have also a strongly symbolic and suggestive meaning. Here, a painting from the contemporaneous Vicente Gil (not to be confused with the playwright)
Works of Garcia de Resende. In the Miscelânia, he defends Vicente as the "Father of Portuguese theatre."In their orbit
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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 Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.
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