by Gil Vicente · ISBN 9789720301130
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«Auto da barca do inferno» is the play by Gil Vicente, published by Porto Editora (135 pages, in Portuguese).
A 16th-century Portuguese play that satirizes the social classes of its time: a boatman receives characters of different standing, and their deeds determine their fate. With irony and symbols, Gil Vicente portrays the double standards, hypocrisy and vices of society, combining the comic with moral criticism.
School edition with complete text and critical material, designed for the 3rd cycle (9th year) of secondary education in Portugal.
Aimed at secondary school students and readers who want to discover classic Portuguese theatre.
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.
