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Portuguese playwright and poet (c.1465-c.1536)

This article is about the Portuguese playwright.

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Gil Vicente (Portuguese:[ˈʒilviˈsẽtɨ]; c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portugueseplaywright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights.

Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.

Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen DowagerLeonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write Gil Vicente summary | Britannica KAWAZ