by Gil Vicente · Francisco Lyon de Castro · tapa blanda · ISBN 5601072405554
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«Os Autos das Barcas» is the play by Gil Vicente that brings together the three autos of the trilogy, published by Francisco Lyon de Castro in paperback.
Gil Vicente satirizes in this trilogy the judgment of souls: characters from different social classes appear after death before two boats, bound for heaven or hell, and their fate is decided according to their deeds in life. The edition includes an introduction, notes, and the translation of the Auto da Barca da Glória by J. Tomaz Ferreira.
Portuguese-language edition of 162 pages, published in 1987. It brings together the Auto da Barca do Inferno, the Auto da Barca do Purgatório, and the Auto da Barca da Glória.
A work of interest for students of Portuguese literature and for readers of Renaissance theater.
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.
