O presente trabalho compreende traduções anotadas dos seguintes textos: \"Algumas observações sobre William Shakespeare por ocasião do Wilhelm Mei ster\", de August- Wilhelm Schlegel; \"Resenha de \'Algumas observações sobre William Shakespeare por ocasião do Wilhelm Meister\', de August-Wilhelm Schlegel\", de Friedrich Schlegel e \"Sobre o Meister de Goethe\", de Friedrich Schlegel, além de uma dissertação introdutória em que se procura alinhar as principais características da teoria do drama e do romance dos autores, tais como se depreendem dos textos traduzidos, e fazê -la contrastar com a doutrina neoclássica em vigência até então. / The present work was presented as a Master\'s degree dissertation, and comprises the annotated translation of the following texts into Portuguese: \"Etwas über William Shakespeare bei Gelegenheit Wilhelm Meisters\", by August-Wilhelm Schlegel; \"Review of \'Etwas über William Shakespeare bei Gelegenheit Wilhelm Meisters\', by August-Wilhelm Schlegel\", by Friedrich Schlegel, and \"Über Goethes Meister\", by Friedrich Schlegel, beyond an introductory dissertation, in which the main features of the authors\' theories of drama and novel are sketched such as they might be deprehended from the translated texts, and contrasted to the neoclassicist doctrine so far dominant.

O presente trabalho compreende traduções anotadas dos seguintes textos: \"Algumas observações sobre William Shakespeare por ocasião do Wilhelm Mei ster\", de August- Wilhelm Schlegel; \"Resenha de \'Algumas observações sobre William Shakespeare por ocasião do Wilhelm Meister\', de August-Wilhelm Schlegel\", de Friedrich Schlegel e \"Sobre o Meister de Goethe\", de Friedrich Schlegel, além de uma dissertação introdutória em que se procura alinhar as principais características da teoria do drama e do romance dos autores, tais como se depreendem dos textos traduzidos, e fazê -la contrastar com a doutrina neoclássica em vigência até então. / The present work was presented as a Master\'s degree dissertation, and comprises the annotated translation of the following texts into Portuguese: \"Etwas über William Shakespeare bei Gelegenheit Wilhelm Meisters\", by August-Wilhelm Schlegel; \"Review of \'Etwas über William Shakespeare bei Gelegenheit Wilhelm Meisters\', by August-Wilhelm Schlegel\", by Friedrich Schlegel, and \"Über Goethes Meister\", by Friedrich Schlegel, beyond an introductory dissertation, in which the main features of the authors\' theories of drama and novel are sketched such as they might be deprehended from the translated texts, and contrasted to the neoclassicist doctrine so far dominant.

In this dissertation, I examine the complex role that the body played in early modern constructions of judgment. Moving away from an overreliance on anti-theatrical texts as the authority on the body in Shakespeare's plays, my project intervenes in the field Shakespearean studies by widening the lens through which scholars view the body's role in the early modern theater. Through readings of four plays—Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale—I demonstrate that Shakespeare uses a wide range of ideas about the human body from religious, philosophical, medical, and cultural spheres of thought to challenge Puritan accusations that the public theater audience is incapable of rational judgment. The first chapter outlines the parameters of the project. In Chapter 2, I argue that Richard II draws parallels between the theatrical community and the community created through the sacramental experiences of baptism and communion to show that bodies play a crucial role in establishing common experience and providing an avenue for judgment. In Chapter 3, I argue that Shakespeare establishes correspondences between bodily and social collaboration to show how both are needed for the memory-making project of the theater. In the next chapter, I show how Shakespeare appropriates what early moderns perceived of as the natural vulnerability in English bodies to suggest the passionate responses associated with impressionability can actually be sources of productive judgment and self-edification. I argue the storm models this passionate judgment, providing a guide for audience behavior. In Chapter 5, I argue that the memories created by and within the women in The Winter's Tale evoke the tradition of housewifery and emphasize the female role in preservation. Female characters stand in for hidden female contributors to the theater and expose societal blindness to women's work. Through each of these chapters, I argue that Shakespeare's plays emphasize the value of bodily experience and suggest that the audience take up what I have termed "corporeal judgment."

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of the warrior-hero ideal as it evolves in Shakespeare's English and Roman plays, and its ultimate failure as a standard for exemplary conduct. What this study demonstrates is that the ideal of kingship that is developed in the English histories, especially in the Second Tetralogy, and which reaches its zenith in Henry V, is quite literally overturned in three Roman plays--Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. The method of determining this difference is a detailed analysis of these groups of plays. This analysis utilizes the body of Shakespearean criticism in order to note the almost total silence on what this study shows to be Shakespeare's growing disillusionment with the hero-king ideal and his final portrait of this ideal as a failure. It is the main conclusion of this study that in certain plays, and most particularly in the Roman plays, Shakespeare demonstrates a consciousness of something more valuable than political expediency and political legality. Indeed, the tragedy of these political heroes lies precisely in their allegiance to the standard of conduct of the soldier-king. Brutus, Antony, and Coriolanus, among others, suffer defeat in their striving to capture a higher reality. This investigation demonstrates that the concept of honor has lost its value in the social matrix of political machinations.