Gota d'água: um discurso retextualizador de Medéia

Abstract

This essay analyses the play Gota d’água by Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, as a result of rewriting the classical tragedy Medea. Taking into consideration theoric and methodological from the Discours Analysis, the essay searches for the articulation text / context, essential for the understanding of the literary work interacting at the same time as a product, reflex and active element of historical circumstances. It will be taken into consideration, in the extention from Medea by Euripides to Gota d’água, by Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, the script Medea by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. The previously mentioned articulation is essential due to the fact that many of the rewriting processes that Gota d’água presents can be noticed in a script written for an episode of a television program in Globo TV. Observing these influence relations will be part of this research, that will also observe the content these works in the context of the National-Popular Theatre in the 1970’s. Working with a literary and musical play, which is the case of Gota d’água, will still allow reflections about the Brazilian theatrical reality and popular music.