| Resumo: | The Portuguese-Brazilian playwright Antônio José da Silva, better known by his nickname, the Jew (o Judeu), took to the stage in Lisbon eight comic plays, classified as jocose-serious operas. In them, he dialogues in a parodic way, sometimes with Greek mythology, as, for example, in Amphitrion or Jupiter and Alcmene, The Charms of Medea and Labyrinth of Crete; sometimes with canonical narratives from Western Literature, as one reads in El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. Victim of the Portuguese Inquisition in the 18th century, the Jew, through symbologies and metaphors, recorded in his texts the excesses of monarchic and ecclesiastical power, during the reign of the Tribunal of the Holy Office.
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