RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 55

February 2007

 
PART XVII:

Theater

 
See also items 42, 89 & 198.

157. CRUZ, P. Luís da, S.J. (1543-1604). O Pródigo (tragicomédia). 2 vols. Lisbon: INIC / Centro de Estudos Clássicos, 1989. Biblioteca Euphrosyne, 5. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 235 pp., (1 l.); 242 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none. 2 vols. $75.00

Volume I consists of a facsimile reprint of the Lyon, 1605 edition, in Latin. Volume II contains a preface, translation of the text into Portuguese, and notes by J. Mendes de Castro, as well as an introduction and translation of the prologue by Raúl M. Rosado Fernandes. Father Luís da Cruz was an important humanist, poet, and most famous as a pulpit orator. Well grounded in Greek and Latin, he taught rhetoric and Holy Scripture. The present work contains four tragedies, one of which, "Seducias", was staged at Coimbra in 1570 when the king D. Sebastião visited the university. "A representação desta tragédia deu origem a zombarias e pasquins (repetição dos distúrbios provocados pelos estudantes durante a visita do rei) que aproximavam a destruição de Jerusalém por Nabucodonosor, no reinado de Sedecias, com a destruição de Portugal, no reinado de D. Sebastião, pelos irmãos Câmaras, que tão nefasta influência exerceram sôbre o soberano".Grande enciclopedia VIII, 168. See also Barbosa Machado, III, 89-90.
 

158. DELILLE, Maria Manuela Gouveia, and Maria Teresa Delgado Mingocho. A recepção do teatro de Schiller em Portugal no século XIX: O drama "Die Rauber." Coimbra: Centro da Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra / INIC, 1980. Textos de Literatura, 6. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 350 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none. $35.00

 
159. JORGE, Lídia. A maçon: peça em dois actos. Lisbon: Dom Quixote / Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, 1997. Obras completas, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 136 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1366-1. $35.00

Out-of-print; we have one copy remaining. The author, one of the most significant and successful writing currently in Portugal, has been awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes. See Maria Nazeré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 250-1; also Graça Abranches in Biblos, II, 1275-8.
 

160. MESQUITA, Marcelino [António da Silva]. Teatro completo. Pesquisa, organização e introdução de Duarte Ivo Cruz. Volume I. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 535 pp., (1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1516-X. Volume I. $60.00

The introduction by Duarte Ivo Cruz occupies pp. 7-50. On the playwright Marcelino Mesquita (Cartaxo, 1856-Lisbon 1919), who represented an idealogical and aesthetic transition during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, see Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 315-6; Duarte Ivo Cruz in Biblos, III, 723; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1.

 
161. OLIVEIRA, Filomena, and Miguel Real. 1755: O grande terramoto. Preface by Carlos Fragateiro. Póvoa de Santo Adrião: Europress, 2006. Colecção Máscara, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 214 pp. ISBN: 972-559-271-9. $35.00

This play had its opening on 19 April 2006, at the Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon, and ran until 29 July. The book includes an introduction by the authors, (pp. 9-16), and a "ficha artística e técnica, including a cast list.

 
162. REBELLO, Luiz Francisco. Todo o teatro. [Volume I]. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1999. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 705 pp., (2 ll.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-27-0950-X. [Volume I]. $65.00

Lengthy introduction (pp. 9-33) by José Oliveira Barata.

 
163. REBELLO, Luiz Francisco. Todo o teatro. Preface by António Braz Teixeira. Volume II. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 357 pp., (1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1476-7. Volume II. $40.00

On the playwright, lawyer, historian, essayist and theater critic Luiz Francisco Rebello (born Lisbon, 1924), see Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 403-4; Fernando Matos Oliveira in Biblos, IV, 628-31; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 360-2.
 

164. SASPORTES, José. Pensar a dança: a reflexão estética de Mallarmé a Cocteau. 2nd ed., revised and augmented, with an introduction by Fedele d'Amico. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Colecção Arte e Artistas. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 225 pp., (2 ll.), title page in blue and black, considerable illus., about half in color. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1473-2. $45.00