Gil Vicente
THREE DISCOVERY PLAYS:

Auto da Barca do Inferno, Exortação da Guerra, Auto da Índia

edited and translated by Anthony J. Lappin (Manchester)

The three plays edited and translated in this volume are strongly linked to what we now think of as the Portuguese Discoveries. All three are fundamentally concerned with the expansion of Portugal in Africa and India through either crusade or commerce. In the introductions to the plays, the playwright's social rôle as a court dramatist is emphasized and his dramatic productions are set firmly within the political concerns of his time. Careful consideration is given to the involvement of both Gil Vicente and the Inquisition in the later emendation of the play's texts.

Anthony Lappin was educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool, studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and was a temporary lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Oxford.

242pp (1997) cl 665 4 $59.95 / £35; pb 666 2 Portuguese / English $28 / £13.95 (reprinting)

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introductions Abbreviations and Bibliography

RELATED BOOKS

Other annotated parallel texts of Portuguese literature include:
Albuquerque, Caesar of the East
Fernão Lopes The English in Portugal 1367­87