Note 227 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
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A. Herculano, Historia da Inquisição, 3ᵃ ed. (1879), i. 238. Cf. Camillo Castello Branco, A Viuva do Enforcado, ad init. No one of course thinks of comparing Gil Vicente with Shakespeare, but one may perhaps say that he resembles what Shakespeare might have been had he been born in the fifteenth century. The shipwreck in the Triunfo do Inverno recalls the opening scene of The Tempest, as the mad friar recalls poor Tom, and the magnificent fidalgo Falstaff. In the Farsa de Inés Pereira Inés, without being a shrew, is tamed by her husband, who says:
Se eu digo: Esto é novello Vos aveis de confirmalo.