A reappraised tragedy: Lazzaro, by Francisco Pereira da Silva

Roseli Bodnar,Antonio Carlos Hohlfeldt

doi:10.5965/1414573103422021e0211

Roseli Bodnar, Antonio Carlos Hohlfeldt

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This article approaches the play Lazzaro (1948), one of the first works by playwright Francisco Pereira da Silva, born in Piaui, Brazil, in which he uses the genre intermezzo interlaid in an essentially tragic work, in order to discuss its dramatic function in it. The play here analyzed presents many connections with the tragedy Electra in the versions of both Sophocles and Euripides. But while in the Greek plays Orestes is not an instrument of blind fate since he acts as his father’s conscious avenger and his sister’s protector, in Pereira da Silva’s work the text is a little more complex because it is mixed with other texts, be it with different Greek myths or other textual inspirations such as the New Testament. It suffices to pay attention to the character’s given name that is also the title of the play. Besides, in the Brazilian playwright’s work we find the transposition of the original myth to the home of a decaying family in Northeastern Brazil.

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Este artículo analiza la pieza Lazzaro (1948), una de las primeras obras del dramaturgo piauiense Francisco Pereira da Silva, que usa el género intermedio, injerido en una obra de carácter esencialmente trágico, para discutir su función dramática en la obra
While in the Greek plays Orestes is not an instrument of blind fate since he acts as his father’s conscious avenger and his sister’s protector, in Pereira da Silva’s work the text is a little more complex because it is mixed with other texts, be it with different Greek myths or other textual inspirations such as the New Testament
Por sua vez, esquivou-se, pelos motivos acima indicados, assim, fato que se concretiza com a releitura de outro mito clássico, no caso, o de Édipo, em sua relação emocional com a mãe, o que a torna interdita para ele, o filho

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Este artículo analiza la pieza Lazzaro (1948), una de las primeras obras del dramaturgo piauiense Francisco Pereira da Silva, que usa el género intermedio, injerido en una obra de carácter esencialmente trágico, para discutir su función dramática en la obra. Lurdes, a filha, insiste com Lazzaro, seu irmão, para vingarem a morte do pai, por ela atribuída à mãe, Almerinda, e a seu novo marido, Martins11, corrupto e prepotente prefeito da cidade, autopromovido a coronel (Silva, 2009, p.89)12.

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