by Gil Vicente · Colibri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727721542
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«Quem Tem Farelos» is the farce by Gil Vicente, published by Edições Colibri in paperback (127 pages, in Portuguese).
The action takes place over a single day, at the start of summer, when farelos are in the market, and is structured around the power relationship between the master and his servants, accomplices in his wild love affairs. The characters, social types such as the squire, the servant, the old woman and the son, are distinguished by their costumes, language and gestures.
It is the work in which Gil Vicente first uses Portuguese in the composition of an auto.
For those interested in classical Portuguese theatre and the work of Gil Vicente.
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.
