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Gil Vicente

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Um Auto de Gil Vicente and the tradition of comedy.(Almeida Garrett's 1838 Portuguese drama)
; ...attention that it receives. Um Auto de Gil Vicente is not exactly forgotten. But it is...1838, clearly privileging Um Auto de Gil Vicente. (3) The play does indeed break with...performance of a play within the play, Gil Vicente's Cortes de Jupiter. (4) In my view... Read more
Gil Vicente: Poet and Artist of the Portuguese Golden Age
; The Romantics made Gil Vicente the Father of Portuguese theatre...by revisiting what we know about Gil Vicente and the works attributed to him...the stage. To begin with, who was Gil Vicente? He is believed to have been born... Read more
Celtic fans facing new chaos over Benfica tie.(Sport)
; ...mounted by one of the country's sides Gil Vicente. Celtic fans originally booked flights...now reached the domestic civil courts. Gil Vicente have gone to court to try to overturn...seven months before signing a deal with Gil Vicente. Belenenses, who finished bottom of... Read more
Soc: Gil Vicente relegation row hits Portuguese season start
; ...Sports News (Australia) 08-26-2006 Soc: Gil Vicente relegation row hits Portuguese season...after games involving Premier League Gil Vicente and second division sides Belenenses...Portuguese Soccer Federation (FPF) ruled that Gil Vicente should be suspended from all competitions... Read more
Soc: Relegation dispute disrupts start of Portuguese football season
; ...weekend matches involving Belenenses, Gil Vicente and Leixoes today, the opening day of...against the league's decision to demote Gil Vicente, because the club broke rules governing...disciplinary committee had decided to relegate Gil Vicente, who finished 12th in the 18-team first... Read more
Benfica turmoil at new ban row
; ...thrown back into doubt today when Gil Vicente declared war on the Portuguese FA...Portuguese League's relegation of Gil Vicente for fielding an ineligible player was unlawful. Had Gil Vicente abandoned their court action, that... Read more
Football: PORTUGAL.(Sport)
; ...Ronald Koeman after a 2-0 home defeat by Gil Vicente. Koeman said: Nothing went right for...Simao Sabrosa missed a penalty before Gil Vicente struck twice on the break in the last...goal by Brazilian defender Anderson. Gil Vicente are on the same points as last season... Read more
SOC: Gil Vicente beats Leiria, shares league lead
; ...Sports News (Australia) 09-13-1999 SOC: Gil Vicente beats Leiria, shares league lead LISBON, Sept 12 Reuters - Newly-promoted Gil Vicente beat Uniao Leiria 2-0 to share the top...the first from a penalty, enabling Gil Vicente to lead the standings on goal difference... Read more
Light in darkness: Gil Vicente's Barca do Inferno.
; ...which is no doubt very different from Gil Vicente's. Nevertheless, his remarks may help...situation as comic rather than tragic. Gil Vicente also lightens the darkness of the Barca...Teyssier asserts that 'La langue de Gil Vicente est un miroir et un temoin. Ce que nous... Read more
FOOTBALL: AXE THREAT FOR BOAVISTA DUDS.(Sport)
; ...team's poor show in the 1-0 defeat at Gil Vicente, a match in which Celtic's UEFA Cup...swing the axe. He said: I was upset at Gil Vicente. Some players will never play for me...Lucilio Batista's performance against Gil Vicente. The irate coach blasted: I don't care... Read more

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Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente The Portuguese dramatist and poet Gil Vicente (ca. 1465-ca. 1536), who wrote in both Portuguese and Spanish...Almost nothing is known about the first half of the life of Gil Vicente until his first public appearance as a dramatist in 1502... Read more
Vicente, Gil
Vicente, Gil ( c. 1465– c. 1536), Portuguese...European tradition, but owing most to Vicente's own powers of invention. His...comment, possible only because of Vicente's privileged position at Court. Vicente is unquestionably the greatest... Read more
Gil Vicente
...divided into religious plays, court plays, pastoral plays, popular farces, and romantic comedy. His works include Exhortation to War (1513), The Forge of Love (1524), and The Pilgrimage of the Aggrieved (1533). Gil Vicente Gil Vicente Gil Vicente Read more
Gil Vicente
...dramatist and poet, considered second only to Camões. Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel...Erasmus, and, in his early plays, the works of Encina. Vicente's lyric plays and entertainments were created (c.1500-c...Some are profoundly religious, some especially satirical; ... Read more
Vicente Martínez Espinel
...eight-syllable lines rhyming abbaaccdde. Espinel is best known for his picaresque, semiautobiographical novel Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón [the life of Squire Marcos de Obregón] (1618), from which Le Sage adapted episodes and characters for Gil Blas. Read more

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