Abstract
Este artigo tece reflexões acerca da presença da figura do bobo, cuja cenas cômicas são recorrentes em textos trágicos, tanto de Shakespeare como de seus predecessores e contemporâneos, a pontos destes textos serem, por sugestão pelo autor, denominados tragicomédia ou comitragédia. O estudioso propõe grupos de tipos de passagens cômicas dentro das peças renascentistas, ressaltando que Shakespeare é o grande expoente do uso da comicidade em suas peças trágicas, porém, em perspectiva cronológica, Alden expõe como o riso, visto como a consequência da comicidade em detrimento das ações dos bobos, perpassou por autores predecessores e contemporâneos a Shakespeare.
Highlights
This article reflects on the presence of the figure of the clown, whose comic scenes are recurrent in tragic texts, as well Shakespeare as his predecessors and contemporaries, to get to the point these texts, by the author’s suggestion, call tragicomedy or comitragedy
The scholar proposes groups of types of comic passages within Renaissance plays, emphasizing that Shakespeare is the great exponent of the use of comicity in his tragic plays, in chronological perspective, Alden exposes how laughter, seen as the consequence of comedy in detriment of the clowns’ actions, is crossed by authors predecessors and contemporaries to Shakespeare
Obviamente estes vários críticos tinham em mente os dramas dos mais variados tipos, tais quais – em um extremo, aqueles predominantemente trágicos, 1 Prefácio a Shakespeare; Works, ed. 1801, ii, p. 87. (Original em inglês: “an interchange of seriousness and merriment”). 2 Prefácio a Shakespeare; Works, ed. 1801, ii, p. 88. (Original em inglês: “in tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comic”). 3 Elizabethan Critical Essays
Summary
This article reflects on the presence of the figure of the clown, whose comic scenes are recurrent in tragic texts, as well Shakespeare as his predecessors and contemporaries, to get to the point these texts, by the author’s suggestion, call tragicomedy or comitragedy.
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