Nelson Rodrigues

Nelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Wedding Dress (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded of the Brazil's greatest playwright. His plays usually dealt with the topics considered taboo by the Brazilian society, such as sexuality, virginity, and incest, denouncing the hypocrisy of the family-life-in-the-middle, and upper classes.