The Tragedy of Ines de Castro

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The Tragedy of Ines de Castro

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Also known as: “A Castro”, “Ignez de Castro”

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In António Ferreira
His tragedy Castro (written c. 1558) was one of the first in modern European literature. It takes as its subject the death of the Portuguese national heroine Inês de Castro, who was murdered by Afonso IV—the father of Dom Pedro, her lover—for reasons of state, a theme…
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In Portuguese literature: The Italianate school of poetry and drama
…his fame rests chiefly on A Castro (written c. 1558; Eng. trans. The Tragedy of Ines de Castro), which treated one of the most moving tragic themes to enter European literature—the execution of Inês de Castro, the 14th-century mistress of King Peter (Pedro) I—by reference to the ancient Greek dramatists…
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