List of Brazilian dramatists and playwrights
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ian dramatists and playwrights include the following.
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ian dramatists and playwrights include the following.
- Álvares de AzevedoÁlvares de AzevedoManuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...
- Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegreManuel de Araújo Porto-alegreManuel José de Araújo Porto-alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor. He is patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
- Leilah AssunçãoLeilah AssunçãoLeilah Assunção, or Leilah Assumpção is a Brazilian dramatist, actress and writer. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Maria Adelaide Amaral....
- Antônio Bivar
- Augusto BoalAugusto BoalAugusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements...
- Millôr FernandesMillôr FernandesMillôr Fernandes is a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright.He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and started his journalistic career already in 1938, publishing in several Brazilian magazines....
- Adonias FilhoAdonias FilhoAdonias Aguiar Filho is a writer and novelist from Bahia, Brazil. Member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.-Life:Filho was born in Itajuípe, Brazil, the son of Adonias Aguiar and Rachel Bastos de Aguiar....
- Plínio Marcos
- Martins PenaMartins PenaLuís Carlos Martins Pena was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of customs", winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Molière"....
- Nélson RodriguesNélson RodriguesNelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog...
- Ariano SuassunaAriano SuassunaAriano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....