Porsa

Kaeso Porsa, known better simply by the name Porsa, was a Sevician playwright and author who wrote ten full-length plays spanning a career of more than 30 years in the mid-seventh century. Known for his bawdy jokes and his frequent use of poetic verse and metre in his comedies, Porsa - alongside fellow playwrights Iophanus and Jane of Hearts - is credited as one of the three founding figures of influence for the form of theatrical comedy known as New Comedia, and is regarded by many as one of the greatest playwrights in Sevician history.
== Background and life ==
Born in the capital of Morosea in 604 A.S, Porsa was the third of five children of noble parents. Porsa, unlike his companions Iophanus and Jane of Hearts, against whom he is often compared, grew up relatively wealthy and enjoyed a long childhood of private tutoring and education. He was fluent in three languages - Sevician, Erenneese, and Itrusic - and was known to be an incredibly talented and intelligent young man. While working as an apprentice to his father, who was a local governor in Morosea, he began writing drama and tragedy in the early 620s.
Porsa made his transition to comedy in the mid-620s, eventually finishing his first full play, A Handful of Coins, in 628. Coins followed the tragicomic life of a rich noble who one day, after waking up in the middle of the street in a neighbourhood where all the houses had suddenly disappeared, had to protect a coffer of coins that had been left beside him. Despite its absurd premise and setting, Coins earned acclaim for its unique style, doing away with elaborate staging, costumes, and masks and focusing less on buffoonery and farcical slapstick and more on character-driven dialogue that carried with it a biting, satirical edge.
His major break came in the year 630 with the showing of his second full play, The Anacala. It was an immediate success upon first showing, and along with Jane of Hearts' Lords of Fish and Iophanus' Watchers, both released in the same year, it is credited with pioneering and popularising the genre of theatrical comedy that would come to be known as New Comedia. Over the next 30-plus years, Porsa enjoyed an immense ammount of success, releasing a total of ten feature-length plays and a number of short stories and poems. His work, which is considered among the greatest in Sevician history, is notable for its heavy use of poetic verse and metre, with one play, The Estan (652), being written almost entirely in verse.
Porsa retired from public life in the 660s as the Anaean Wars ravaged the empire and returned to a quiet life with his wife and three daughters in Morosea. He passed away in 695 at the age of 95, the last of the three pioneers of New Comedia.
== See also ==
Jane of Hearts
Iophanus
New Comedia
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