Artur Azevedo's comedies: in search for the history

Author(s)

Larissa de Oliveira Neves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2006-06-07

Examining board members

Orna Messer Levin; Fernando Mencarelli; Flávio Aguiar; João Roberto Faria; Rubens José Souza Brito

• Advisor: Orna Messer Levin

Abstract

In this thesis we study nine of Artur Azevedo¿s comedies, written between 1897 and 1908: A Capital Federal, O Badejo, O Retrato a Óleo, A Fonte Castália, O Mambembe, O Dote, O Oráculo, O Cordão and Vida e Morte. We examined the reception of the plays¿ first presentations and Artur Azevedo¿s ideas to base our research, in order to emphasize it¿s importance in the historical period and to enlighten the knowledge about the author¿s intellectual personality. In especial, our work was directed to the relation between the writer and the spectators towards whom he created each comedie, because we ascertained that the comprehension of his dramaturgy is centered in this relationship. We studied the literary and theatrical elements (composition, language, characters, plot) of the plays with the purpose of assuring the esthetical value of some texts, as well as the structural problems of others. We verified that the text elements received interference from the audience¿s taste, which emphasizes the aspect of Artur Azevedo¿s character as a man of theater, not only a playwright (AU)