Banca de DEFESA: VITOR NOGUEIRA ALVES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VITOR NOGUEIRA ALVES
DATE: 29/03/2022
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: sala 1.49 Campus Dom Bosco
TITLE:

Shakespeare and Ovid. A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Metamorfoses.

KEY WORDS:

Shakespeare and Ovid. Transtextuality. Elizabethan comedy. Arthur Golding.

PAGES: 107
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595) is often regarded as Shakespeare’s most Ovidian play. In one of its layers, Peter Quince and other artisans rehearse and perform a clumsy stage adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It has been recognized that this interlude mirrors the action of the main plot, but the eloping pair of lovers is only one among many elements in the Dream–including an actual physical transformation–that point back to the Metamorphoses. In order to examine the transtextual relations (GENETTE, 1982) the Dream establishes with the Metamorphoses, this thesis compares the hipertextual practices of the interlude to the intertextual engagement with Ovid in the main plot. Due to the mirroring between the main action and the play within the play, the latter presents a comic take on the Ovidianism that is pervasive in the Dream: Quince’s text not only includes mistranslations from Ovid’s original but is also Shakespeare’s pastiche of an earlier and cruder Elizabethan style. On the other hand, the core of the Dream is not a direct transposition of Ovid, yet it features many elements from the Metamorphoses in its language, plot, setting, characters and imagery. This thesis also contextualizes Shakespeare’s uses of Ovid within the Ovidian vogue of English literature in the 1590s and the translation movement from the early Elizabethan period, with emphasis to Arthur Golding’s 1567 translation of the Metamorphoses.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1308020 - MIRIAM DE PAIVA VIEIRA
Interno - 1373473 - LUIZ MANOEL DA SILVA OLIVEIRA
Externa à Instituição - ANNA STEGH CAMATI