ABSTRACT
This chapter refers the Auto da Festa, which is one of this author's least-read plays, even though it has particular points of interest, at least as refers to the workshop aspect of the playwright's creation. It proposes to use the Auto da Festa to take a peep into Gil Vicente's workshop, as this play that seems to have emerged from it in a very different state. The chapter looks at how the pieces of that mosaic fit together, resorting not only to the most obvious analogies but also to others that are less visible. It refers to a group of nine shepherds that come to the Fair not to buy and sell but only to show their unconditional devotion to the Virgin, thereby revealing themselves to be the antithesis of all the other unsatisfied characters who cultivate deceptive appearances to the detriment of their true essences.
