RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 60

February 2008

PART XVIII:
Theater


See also items 5, 6, 25 & 154.
136. A.[NDRESEN LEITÃO], Ruben [Alfredo, 1920-1975]. Triálogo; Júlia; Relato 1453. Liberto Cruz, ed. Preface by Armando Nascimento Rosa. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Obras de Ruben A., 17. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 234 pp., (3 ll.), occasional footnotes. ISBN: 978-972-37-0802-8. $35.00
Julia was first published by Livraria Portugal, 1963. The other two plays are published here for the first time. The preface, presumably written for the present edition, occupies pp. [11]-33. Biographical note by Liberto Cruz. On Ruben A., see Lourinda Bom in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 13-4; Clara Rocha in Biblos, IV, 1017-20; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 45-7; and Saraiva & Lopes, 16th ed., pp. 1104, 1165 and 1172.


137. BRANDÃO, Raul (1867-1939) and Teixeira de Pascoaes [i.e., Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos, 1877–1952]. Jesus Cristo em Lisboa: tragicomédia e sete actos. Fixação do texto, notas e posfácio, [Jesué] Pinharanda Gomes. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Obras de Teixeira de Pascoaes, 23. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp., (1 l. colophon), occasional footnotes, frontisport of Teixeira de Pascoaes. ISBN: 978-972-37-1268-1. $35.00
There appear to have been two editions published by Aillaud e Bertrand in the 1920s (1924?); a third was published by Vega in Lisbon, 1984. The present edition, in addition to the notes and some improvements to the text, contains substantial material not present in any of the previous editions, such as a section documenting the reception of the work (pp. 123-50), including texts by Hernâni Cidade, Joaquim Manso, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Luís da Câmara Reys, Raul Brandão and Teixeira de Pascoaes, Pedre Fr. Manuel Alves Correia, O.F.M., Mayer Garção, Raul Brandão, Philéas Lebesgue, and extracts from the newspapers A Voz, and O Primeiro de Janeiro. This is followed by a posfácio (pp. 151-88), and a note about the present edition (p. 189). On Raul [Germano] Brandão, see Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 79-82; Ester de Lemos in Biblos, I, 761-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 40-2. On Teixeira de Pasoaes, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 363-4; Mário Garcia in Biblos, III, 1423-30; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 194-7.


138. FAZENDA, Maria José. Dança teatral: ideias, experiências, acções. Lisbon: Celta, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 202 pp., illus., footnotes, bibliography, filmography. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-972-774-246-2. $30.00


139. PATRÍCIO, António (Porto 1878-Macau, 1930). O fim: história dramática em dois quadros; Diálogo na Alhambra. Armando Nascimento Rosa, ed. "Colaboração heurística" de Maria Manuela Martins Gamboa. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Obras de António Patrício, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 91 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-37-1244-5. $22.00
The editor provides a preliminary note of 2 pp., a posfácio (pp. 67-88), and a bio-bibliographical essay on the author (pp. 89-91). On the poet, dramatist, short story writer and diplomat António Patrício (with a degree in medicine which apparently was never put to practice), see Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 366-7; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 1442-4; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 210-12.