Abstract
Gervasio Lobato (1850-1895) was one of the most popular Portuguese dramatists in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Alongside names like Marcelino de Mesquita, D. João da Câmara and Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, contributed to the consolidation of realistic theater on stages. His production could not be more varied: he was novelist, columnist, journalist and drama critic. As playwr…