by Gil Vicente · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720726995
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"Auto da Barca do Inferno" is a play by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, written in Portuguese. This work is a dramatic allegory where the characters must board one of two boats: the boat to Hell, led by the Devil, or the boat to Heaven, led by an Angel. The play presents a judgment of souls, satirizing 16th-century Lisbon society and reflecting on human vices.
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.
