Qorpo Santo

José Joaquim de Campos Leão, also known as Qorpo-Santo (Triunfo, April 19, 1829 - Porto Alegre May 1, 1883) was a Brazilian journalist and playwright. He is known to have written the very first absurdist theatre plays, long time before the term Theatre of the Absurd was coined. His family put him under judicial interdition in 1861, because he was "writing down everything". As a matter of fact, just in May 1866 he wrote 8 plays, as noted by Guilhermino César. He looked for the best mental doctors in Brazil at that time and got a document telling he was sane, but the judge never took him out of the interdiction.

Contents

• Qorpo Santo
• Ludovic qorpo santo de saias
• Works
• References

Works

Certa identidade em busca de outra

Eu sou vida eu não sou morte

Um credor da Fazenda Nacional

As relações naturais

Hoje sou um; e amanhã sou outro

Um assovio

Um parto

Hóspede atrevido ou O brilhante escondido

A impossibilidade da santificação ou A santificação transformada

Dois irmãos

A separação de dois esposos

La

Lanterna de fogo

Marinheiro escritor

Marido extremoso

Mateus e Mateusa

Elias e sua loucura bíblica