Luís Carlos Martins Pena (November 5, 1815 – December 7, 1848) was a
Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "
comedy of manners
In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a gr ...
", winning the
epithet of "the Brazilian
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and worl ...
".
He is patron of the 29th chair of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters
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.
Life
Martins Pena was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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, 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
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A royal letter of Nov 20 1800 by John VI of Portugal established the ''Aula Prática de Desenho e Fig ...
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
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. 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
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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)
See also
*
1838 in literature
External links
Martins Pena's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
*
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1815 births
1848 deaths
Brazilian male dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Patrons of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
19th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Brazilian male writers
Tuberculosis deaths in Portugal