O mito dos Atridas e a variável trágica na dramaturgia brasileira

Abstract

From classical antiquity, the myth of the Atrides is one of the most violent, with its family feuds, curses and murders that motivate revenge from generation to generation. The themes that revolve around this myth, and that served the purposes of Greek tragediographers, were received and rewritten over the centuries by various authors, including Brazilian playwrights. Thus, based on Classical Reception Studies, this research, of a bibliographic nature, aims to investigate three rewritings of the Atreides myth in Brazilian drama, taking into account the theme of tragedy; namely: Clitemnestra, a rainha de Micenas; tragédia em 5 atos (1844), by Joaquim Norberto de Sousa Silva (1820-1891); Electra no circo (1944), by Hermilo Borba Filho (1917-1976); and Lazzaro (1948), by Francisco Pereira da Silva (1918-1985). A study of this magnitude, which analyzes three plays that have the same myth as their subject, allows us to identify not only the specificity of the historical moment of the received work, but also to reflect on the survival of tragedy, as well as the tragic variable, the theme that guides this research. Finally, our theoretical contribution regarding Rewriting, Reception and Tragedy is based, above all, on the following authors: Tiphaine Samoyault (2008), Anastasia Bakogianni (2016), Charles Martindale (2006), Edith Hall (2004), Lorna Hardwick (2003), Maaten De Pourcq (2012), Gerd Bornheim (2007), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (2010), Jean- Pierre Vernant (2014) and Albin Lesky (2015).