RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 46

June 2005

 
PART XIX:

Theater

 
See also items 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

202. LETRIA, José Jorge. Exilado a sul, peça em dois actos. Alpiarça: Garrido, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 64 pp. ISBN: 972-8738-57-9. $15.00

Two act play in which the characters are Manuel Teixeira Gomes (when he was President of Portugal and afterwards, in exile at Bougie), Viana de Carvalho (secretary to Teixeira Gomes), Tenente Brito (officer-aide to the President), Columbano Bordallo Pinheiro (near the end of his life), and "República" (described as "mulher de trinta anos"). The author's A dúvida melódica was awarded the Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais in 1951, he has published at least 33 volumes of poetry, a number of which have also been awarded literary prizes, including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz-Município de Lisboa (twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. From January 1994 until January 2002 the author was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.

 
203. LOBO, Domingos. Quando os medos ardem. Alpiarça: Garrido, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8471-39-4. $18.00

The author has written at least three works of fiction, one of which, Os navios negreiros não sobem o Cuando (1993), was awarded the Prémio Literário Cidade de Torres Vedras. He has also had published at least three volumes of poetry, and has written three previous plays.

 
204. REIS, Luciano. Os grandes dramaturgos portugueses. Lisbon: SeteCaminhos, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 88 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-602-034-5. $18.00

Presents brief data on 359 Portuguese playwrights who died in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 
205. SARAMAGO, José. Don Giovanni, ou o dissoluto absolvido, teatro. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 135 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1686-X. $18.00

 
206. VICENTE, Gil. A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes of Gil Vicente's Floresta de enganos. Constantine Christopher Stathatos, ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 125. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 138 pp., (1 blank l.). ISBN: none. $15.00

Scholarly edition of Vicente's last play, written shortly before his death in 1536.