Luiz Francisco Rebello
Encyclopedia
Luiz Francisco Rebello is a Portuguese
lawyer
, playwright
, drama critic, theatrical historian, translator and essayist.
Luiz Francisco Rebello is the most credited Portuguese theatrical historian, being the author of works published on Portuguese theatrical history and theatre criticism and he is a prolific playwright.
, Armindo Magalhães, Manuel da Fonseca
and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Rebello was, in 1992, one of the founders of the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Frente Nacional para a Defesa da Cultura) (BDNF).
His noted anthology Teatro Moderno: Caminhos e figuras was first published in short volumes at irregular periods during the year of 1957 by “Círculo do Livro”, a label that belonged to Vítor Palla (1922-2006) and Orlando Costa (1929-2006). The 2nd edition, published in 1964, was printed on the label “Prelo”, on a theatre collection directed by Rebello himself. In the 1964 edition he added new essays such as those by Shaw, Jarry, Synge, Piscator, Oskar Schlemmer, Meyerhold, Giraudoux and Sartre.
He obtained a law degree from the University of Lisbon and chaired the Portuguese Society of Authors (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores) for 30 years from 1973 to 2003, specializing in the area of copyright. He was also vice president of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
In 1971, Rebello was appointed director of the Teatro São Luiz in Lisbon, a position that he would resign the following year due to censorship disagreements. Rebello has been a contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Colóquio-Letras, Jornal de Letras, Seara Nova and Vértice. Since 1971, he has also contributed to the Dicionário do Teatro Português, the dictionary of Portuguese theatre. He has also translated the work of several influential playwrights, including William Shakespeare
, Bertolt Brecht
, Samuel Beckett
, August Strindberg
, and Henrik Ibsen
.
and also received the Prémio da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores in 1994.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, drama critic, theatrical historian, translator and essayist.
Luiz Francisco Rebello is the most credited Portuguese theatrical historian, being the author of works published on Portuguese theatrical history and theatre criticism and he is a prolific playwright.
Career
Rebello was a founder and a member of the direction of several experimental theatre groups, becoming one of the founders of the “Teatro-Estúdio do Salitre” in 1946 along with Gino Saviotti and in 1948 founded the “Companheiros do Páteo das Comédias”, two of the most important experimental groups of the post-war period. Together with José SaramagoJosé Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
, Armindo Magalhães, Manuel da Fonseca
Manuel da Fonseca
Manuel Lopes Fonseca, better known as Manuel da Fonseca was a Portuguese writer....
and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, GCIH is a Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer, winner of many literary prizes. He was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal, but spent most of his childhood near Moura, in Alentejo, the Southern region of Portugal...
Rebello was, in 1992, one of the founders of the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Frente Nacional para a Defesa da Cultura) (BDNF).
His noted anthology Teatro Moderno: Caminhos e figuras was first published in short volumes at irregular periods during the year of 1957 by “Círculo do Livro”, a label that belonged to Vítor Palla (1922-2006) and Orlando Costa (1929-2006). The 2nd edition, published in 1964, was printed on the label “Prelo”, on a theatre collection directed by Rebello himself. In the 1964 edition he added new essays such as those by Shaw, Jarry, Synge, Piscator, Oskar Schlemmer, Meyerhold, Giraudoux and Sartre.
He obtained a law degree from the University of Lisbon and chaired the Portuguese Society of Authors (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores) for 30 years from 1973 to 2003, specializing in the area of copyright. He was also vice president of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
In 1971, Rebello was appointed director of the Teatro São Luiz in Lisbon, a position that he would resign the following year due to censorship disagreements. Rebello has been a contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Colóquio-Letras, Jornal de Letras, Seara Nova and Vértice. Since 1971, he has also contributed to the Dicionário do Teatro Português, the dictionary of Portuguese theatre. He has also translated the work of several influential playwrights, including William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
, Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
, August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, and Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
.
Acclaim
Rebello has received many prestigious awards including Ordem do Infante D. Henrique (1985), the insignia of the Knight of the Order of National Merit (1991) which was granted by the French Minister of Communication George Kiejemann, and the Order of Merit (1995), given by Dr. Mário SoaresMário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Family:...
and also received the Prémio da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores in 1994.