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The Boat Plays (Absolute Classics)

The Boat Plays (Absolute Classics)
By Gil Vicente

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #556099 in Books
  • Published on: 1994-10-01
  • Original language: Portuguese
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 160 pages

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Three magnificent Plays worth reading and seeing5
I have studied «The Boat to Hell» («A Barca do Inferno») in high school and seen the full play of the three boats («A Barca da Glória», «A Barca do Inferno» and «A Barca do Purgatório») in the Dona Maria II National Theatre in Lisbon.
The usual order by which they are usually presented is not the one on the book, but «Hell, Purgatory, Heaven» and, as they go up one the «Final Judgement scale», they also go up on the social scale.
Gil Vicente strongly criticises his contemporary society, from the small burglar to the highest priest (the Pope himself appears in the «Boat to Heaven»).
The Devil and an Angel are the main characters, as they lead the rest of the characters to their eternal faith.