Martins Pena
{{short description|Brazilian playwright}}
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| birth_name = Luís Carlos Martins Pena
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| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Kingdom of Brazil
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| death_place = Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
| occupation = Playwright
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| alma_mater = Escola Nacional de Belas Artes
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| movement = Romanticism
| notableworks = O Noviço, Quem Casa Quer Casa, O Juiz de Paz na Roça
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Luís Carlos Martins Pena (November 5, 1815 – December 7, 1848){{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons [Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall]|year=1996|page=340}} was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of manners", winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Molière".
He is patron of the 29th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Life
Martins Pena was born in Rio de Janeiro, to João Martins Pena and Francisca de Paula Julieta Pena. Losing his father when he was 1 year old, and his mother when he was 10, he was delivered to the care of tutors, who ingressed him at the world of commerce. However, seeing that it was not what he wanted, he entered at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in 1835, learning Architecture, Statuary, Drawing and Music. Entering at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1838, he travelled to many countries, such as England, where he contracted tuberculosis. Moving to Lisbon in an unsuccessful attempt of mitigating the disease, he died in 1848.
Works
- O Juiz de Paz na Roça (1838)
- Itaminda, ou O Guerreiro de Tupã (1839)
- A Família e a Festa na Roça (1840)
- Vitiza, ou O Nero de Espanha (1841)
- O Judas no Sábado de Aleluia (1844)
- O Namorador, ou A Noite de São João (1845)
- Os Três Médicos (1845)
- A Barriga do Meu Tio (1846)
- Os Ciúmes de um Pedestre, ou O Terrível Capitão do Mato (1846)
- As Desgraças de uma Criança (1846)
- O Diletante (1846)
- Os Meirinhos (1846)
- Um Segredo de Estado (1846)
- O Caixeiro da Taverna (1847)
- Os Irmãos das Almas (1847)
- Quem Casa Quer Casa (1847)
- O Noviço (1853; posthumous)
- Os Dois e o Inglês Maquinista (1871; posthumous)
References
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See also
External links
{{Wikisourcelang|pt|Autor:Martins Pena|Martins Pena (original works in Portuguese)}}
- [http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=280 Martins Pena's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters] {{in lang|pt}}
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Category:Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Category:Patrons of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Category:19th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights