Ángela de Azevedo facts for kids
Ángela de Azevedo (in Spanish, Acevedo) was a 17th Century Portuguese playwright.
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Ângela de Azevedo
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The Manor house of Azevedo, in Paredes da Beira (Portugal), birthplace of 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
Recent research on her biography
Recent research 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, in Paredes da Beira, 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, 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. She moved with her husband to nearby Soutelo do Douro, where she mostly spent the rest of her life and where she would die, sometime before 1723. 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.
She wrote all her works in Spanish. Her play "El muerto disimulado (Presumed Dead)" has been recently re-edited, with a translation into English; 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."
Ângela de Azevedo is one of six known female playwrights of seventeenth century Spain.
Works
She wrote several plays, three of which have survived to the present:
- El muerto disimulado (The Feigned Death),
- 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).
All three are written in Spanish and placed in Portugal. The first has a secular theme, while the remaining two have typically religious themes. It is thought that her plays may have been staged in the royal palace.
See also
In Spanish: Ángela de Acevedo para niños
