Light in darkness: Gil Vicente's Barca do Inferno. From: Portuguese Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

In a recent book, Alan Ayckbourn observes that 'comedy is an essential part of any play'. (1) He asserts that 'I certainly don't decide when I sit down to write: today I'm going to write a comedy. Simply, I'm going to write a play. The degree of lightness or darkness is often initially dictated by the theme, but never to the extent that I would want the one totally to exclude the other. [...] The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter'. (2) Ayckbourn, of course, is describing his own practice, which is no doubt very different from Gil Vicente's. ...

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