Ángela de Azevedo
Ángela de Azevedo (in Spanish, Acevedo) was a 17th Century Portuguese playwright.[1][2]
Ângela de Azevedo | |
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Born | c. 1665 Paredes da Beira, Portugal |
Died | Before 1723 Soutelo do Douro, Portugal |
Occupation | Playwright |
Language | Spanish |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Citizenship | Portuguese |
Biography
Controversy about the period and circumstances of her life
According to Damião de Froes Perym, an 18th century Portuguese author,
However, another 18th century Portuguese author, Diogo Barbosa Machado, in the second and in the fourth volumes of his Bilbiotheca Lusitana, presented a very different version of Ângela de Azevedo's life, stating that she was a daughter of Tomé de Azevedo, a military leader in the Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668), and his wife Dona Maria de Almeida.[6] [7]
Recent research on her biography
Recent research[8] has corroborated Barbosa Machado's version, showing on the basis of documents retrieved from Portuguese archives that Ângela de Azevedo was indeed born in the second half of the 17th Century, probably around year 1665,[9] in Paredes da Beira,[10] Portugal, daughter of Tomé de Azevedo, governor of the Castle Fortress of Almeida, and his wife Maria de Almeida.
She was brought up in the Manor house of Azevedo,[11][12] in Paredes da Beira, an estate that had belonged to her family since the Middle Ages, and where she married Francisco de Ansiâes de Figueiredo on November 1, 1693.[13] She moved with her husband to nearby Soutelo do Douro,[14] where she mostly spent the rest of her life and where she would die, sometime before 1723.[15] She had no children from her marriage. Like her sister Luísa, who would inherit the Azevedo estate, Ângela de Azevedo was fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and Latin.[16]
She wrote all her works in Spanish. Her play "El muerto disimulado (Presumed Dead)" has been recently re-edited, with a translation into English;[17] in this work Ângela de Azevedo "posits a feminist discourse by constructing a protagonist, Jacinta, who breaks with the traditional female role of passive object to take control of narrative and emplotment as the speaking subject."[18]
Ângela de Azevedo is one of six known female playwrights of seventeenth century Spain.[19]
Works
She wrote several plays, three of which have survived to the present:
- El muerto disimulado (The Feigned Death),[20]
- La Margarita del Tajo que dió nombre a Santarem (Margarita of Tajo Who Gave Her Name to Santarem), and
- Dicha y desdicha del juego y devoción de la Virgen (Bliss and Misfortune in the Game and Devotion to the Virgin).[1]
All three are written in Spanish and placed in Portugal.[2] The first has a secular theme, while the remaining two have typically religious themes.[5] It is thought that her plays may have been staged in the royal palace.[5]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780313324444. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ a b c de Cano; J. R. Fernández. "Acevedo o Azevedo, Ángela de (¿-1644)". MCN Biografías. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ Damião de Froes Perym, Theatro Heroino, abecedario historico, e catalogo das mulheres ilustres em armas, letras acçoens heroicas e artes liberais, Lisboa Occidental, Officina de Musica de Theotonio Antunes Lima, 1740
- ^ a b Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 4. D.F. Robinson. 1844. p. 400.
- ^ ISBN 9780826514813.
- ^ Machado, Diogo Barbosa (1747). Bibliotheca lusitana historica, critica, e cronologica Tomo II...por Diogo Barbosa Machado,... (in Brazilian Portuguese). na officina de Antonio Isidoro da Fonseca. p. 247.
- ^ Machado, Diogo Barbosa (1741). Bibliotheca lusitana historica, critica, e cronologica.Tomo IV (in Portuguese). Robarts - University of Toronto. Lisboa. pp. 19–20.
- ISSN 2013-6986.
- ^ Provenzano, p. 88
- ^ "Paredes da Beira". www.sjpesqueira.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ "DGPC | Casa de Azevedo e capela. Casa da Torre das Pedras". www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ "Monumentos. Casa de Azevedo - Casa da Torre das Pedras. Portugal, Viseu, São João da Pesqueira, Paredes da Beira". www.monumentos.gov.pt. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ Provenzano, p. 92
- ^ "Junta de Freguesia de Soutelo do Douro". www.sjpesqueira.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ Provenzano, p. 93
- ^ UFSC-NUPILL, UFSC-INE. "Digital Library of Literature from Lusophone Countries. "PINTO, Alexandre de Sousa. O Pe Manuel de Azevedo, s.j., (1713-1796) e o papel que poderá ter desempenhado na normalização das relações entre Portugal e a Santa Sé."". www.literaturabrasileira.ufsc.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). p. 6. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- OCLC 1197844497.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "Engendering Narrative Equality in Ángela de Azevedo's El muerto disimulado". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ISSN 0709-549X.
- ^ Azevedo, Angela. Comedia famosa: El muerto dissimulado (in Spanish).