Abstract
Adaptations created in pedagogical contexts are creative-critical commentaries which produce concepts about adaptational relations unavailable through the traditional academic works. The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the short film Duas Casas, a creative-critical commentary on Romeo and Juliet produced in pedagogical context. After presenting the production context and describing the fourteen-minute film, the article will analyze the short film’s cultural and social significance by approaching the discussion through Huang’s concept of cultural location. In conclusion, producing creative-critical commentaries legitimate readers to appropriate the text dealing with it as a living organism, persistently being revisited and recreated.
Highlights
Shakespeare’s works have been an endless source of inspiration for adaptations in diferent cultures and media across centuries
The Broadway adaptation West Side Story relocates the story of Romeo and Juliet in the 1950s New York, highlighting the issue of racial prejudice against Puerto Ricans, through the Jets versus Sharks rivalry
In Michael Almereyda’s adaptation of Hamlet to the cinema in 2000, the prince of Denmark is transported to contemporary New York
Summary
Shakespeare’s works have been an endless source of inspiration for adaptations in diferent cultures and media across centuries. Hus, the persistent prominence of Shakespeare’s work continuously being adapted to diferent media reveals the impact of digital culture in our sense of drama, and expands and alters the practice of research and our understanding of Shakespearean drama itself (Worthen 229-230). He subjects involved in the adaptation process were students, ranging from 13 to 15, from both schools in the two neighborhoods, EMEF Professora Creusa Brito Giorgis in Ivo Ferronato and EMEF Peri Coronel in Malafaia, formed a single group in order to adapt Romeo and Juliet closer to their reality and to make sense of Shakespeare in the pampa gaucho.
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