"Collected plays by the militant physician and playwright. The title is a play on the meaning of quarto, which translates as both 'three-fourths' and 'three rooms,' in this case an allusion to the titles of the three plays in this collection: Quarto de empregada or the maid's room, Quarto de estudante or the student's room, and Quarto de hotel or the hotel room"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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