Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente (; c.1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus,"^[3] often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights.^[1] Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish^[3] and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.