António José,ónioJoséouOPoetaeaInquisiçã ou O Poeta e a Inquisição (in ) is a theatre play by Gonçalves de Magalhães, the first Brazilian Romantic author. Written in and performed for the first time in 1838, it was published in that same year. It is considered to be the first play of a "pure" Brazilian theatre.

Its plot is loosely based on the final days of Luso-Brazilian Jewish playwright António José da Silva, who was garroted and later burned by the Inquisition.

António José, ou O Poeta e a Inquisição

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1838 plays

Brazilian plays

1838 books

Plays set in Portugal

Plays set in Brazil

Cultural depictions of writers

Cultural depictions of poets

Cultural depictions of Portuguese men

Cultural depictions of Brazilian men

Plays set in the 18th century

Biographical plays

António José, ou O Poeta e a Inquisição