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| Author(s): |
Bruna Grasiela da Silva Rondinelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2012-04-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Orna Messer Levin;
Elizabeth Ferreira Cardoso Ribeiro Azevedo;
André Luís Gomes
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| Advisor: | Orna Messer Levin |
| Abstract | |
This study reconstitute the conditions in which Martins Pena (1815-1848) plays were represented at the São Pedro de Alcântara Theater, during the years 1838 to 1855, using information gathered from spectacles' announcements, theatrical chronicles and letters from spectators published in the fluminense press of the eighteenth century. The contextualization of the exhibitions - data acquisition about the mise en scène, the repertory, the programs and the acting artists - illuminated issues and proposed possible answers to questions about the Martins Pena's dramatic production, such as the motivations to compose his comedies and how was the public and critic reception. Martins Pena wrote 22 comic plays; 18 of these were first time staged between October of 1838 and December of 1846 at the São Pedro de Alcântara Theater, mostly during the programs of the spectacles in benefit of actors, as Estela Sezefreda (1810-1874), wife of João Caetano (1808-1863) and the portuguese Manoel Soares (?-1859) and Ludovina Soares (1802- 1868). O Judas em Sábado de Aleluia, Os Irmãos das Almas and O Noviço were his most staged comedies during the decades of 1840 and 1850. These plays, woven with farcical means, dialogue with the french melodramas' esthetic, adapt discussions present in the Rio de Janeiro daily journals and satirize the religious orders, the police, the civil and criminal laws of the Empire. The reconstruction of the Martins Pena's creation context allowed us to conclude that the comediograph had influence on the organization of theatrical programs in benefit of actors at São Pedro de Alcântara Theater, were spectator of these programs, reader and censor of their repertory, and an author who searched not only to give entertainment to the audience, but also to transmit a social message (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04285-1 - Martins Pena and the São Pedro de Alcântara's Theater: the repertoire, artists and theatrical ideas (1850-1859) |
| Grantee: | Bruna Grasiela da Silva Rondinelli |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |