A estética romântica no teatro de Gonçalves Dias

Studies about Leonor de Mendonça are not very numerous and they usually are articulated with chapters or prefaces that deal with the dramatic production of Gonçalves Dias as a whole or on the romantic theater in Brazil.This thesis aims to present a more extensive and detailed study of the Dias' masterpiece.The choice of this play was also due to the famous Prologue that precedes it, as it discusses important aspects of romantic aesthetic and dialogue with European productions, especially with the Preface of Cromwell by Victor Hugo.The scope of this work is to analyze the drama Leonor de Mendonça focusing on the context of production from the aesthetic point of view.In this sense, the examination of the sample cover a study on the dramatic genres in vogue in the period and the relation of Gonçalves Dias' work with these theatrical aesthetic.The idea is to understand how the elements of the bourgeois drama, melodrama, historical and romantic drama as well as aspects of gothic literature are embedded in the text in question.In addition, the permanence of classical and neoclassical elements will also be discussed throughout the chapters of this study.The intent of the review is to point out how communication with these genres contributes to development of the drama.In this exercise transpires more tangibly G. Dias' dialogue with Victor Hugo as well as interaction with Schiller's tragedies.Considered a historical drama, in fact, the play is structured by interrelating characteristics of different genres.More than the result of an inter-gender relationship, Leonor de Mendonça shows that various aesthetic experiences of the author have been subsumed in the composition and conformed in a romantic drama of tragic plot and critical content that even now remains current.This paper also compares the play in question with contemporary Brazilian dramas and tragedies in order to demonstrate the uniqueness of the history of duchess of Bragança in this context which the romantic aesthetic in the theater was not yet fully understood or accepted

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