Gil Vicente: The India Play

3 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Presentation of the author and historical contextualization (both spatial and temporal).

Description of the play as a discourse of criticism and derision: its structure, the (i)moral values it portrays (ambition, materialism, violence, deception and non-religiousness) and the ways in which it condemns the collonial state. 

Connection with other authors such as Luís de Camões, whose epic poem also presents a tension between "glory" and "downfall"; and Edward Saïd's postcolonial concept of "contrapuntal reading".