Note 353 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

The disapproval of the popular drama is frequent in religious writers. In the seventeenth century Antonio Vieira declared that uma das felicidades que se contava entre as do tempo presente era acabarem-se as comedias em Portugal. Feo earlier, in common with many others, had similarly denounced the romances of chivalry pelos quaes o Demonio comvosco fala; livraria do diabo (Tratt. Qvad. (1619), ff. 156, 157).