Luís de Camões (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Although Luís de Camões does not seem to have tried to compete with his great compatriot, the dramatist Gil Vicente, Camões did write three short autos (short plays). Enfatriões (pr. 1540; amphytrions), an adaptation of Plautus’s comedy, was probably staged in 1540 as a scholar’s exercise or for an academic celebration at Coimbra University. The El-Rei Seleuco (pr. c.1542; the play of King...
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