O poder da voz em Medeia

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the play Medea, of Eurípides, seen in dialog with some of his versions forged along the times, when is included in our corpus of analysis the work Medée, of the French playwright Jean Anouilh, and Gota d ‘água, Brazilian play created by Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes. Leaving from the work of Romilly (1975), we seek to demonstrate like tragedy and rhetoric are interdependent in the composition of the cited works, especially for the drama contained in the speech of the characters. For this, we establish a dialog between the ancient rhetoric and the modern concept of ethos, such as the Discourse Analysis understands it. The category of the ethos contributes in important way to establish frontiers between the literary variants of the myth and makes possible reflections on the proceedings of intertextuality adopted. After the analyses, we realize how the investment of the enunciation is exposed through the power of the voice in the versions of Medea, creating a powerful psychological effect to make the profile of the protagonist.