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Gil Vicente (c. 1470–c. 1536)

Vicente, Gil (Hēl vē-then’tā). A Portuguese dramatist and actor, father of the drama of his country; born in Lisbon (?), about 1470; died there (?), about 1536 or 1538. His first play was a pastoral in Spanish, written in 1502 in honor of the birth of the Portuguese prince royal (afterward John III.). This made an immense hit at court, and thereafter he wrote every new play that was acted at the royal festivals. Farces, comedies, dramas, and tragedies, appear among his works. In construction and dialogue, his ‘Dom Duardos’ and ‘Amadis de Gaula’ are masterpieces. ‘Inez Pereira’ is the best of his farces.

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