SILVA, Josenildo Ferreira Teófilo da. O humano e sua voz: um diálogo comparativo entre Mrs. Dalloway de Virginia Woolf e Rei Lear de William Shakespeare. 2017. 164f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-14T14:03:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_jftsilva.pdf: 3983596 bytes, checksum: 729280155c60a0695ccd2943f4b0d967 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-07-25T13:20:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_jftsilva.pdf: 3983596 bytes, checksum: 729280155c60a0695ccd2943f4b0d967 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-25T13:20:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_jftsilva.pdf: 3983596 bytes, checksum: 729280155c60a0695ccd2943f4b0d967 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / The present dissertation aims at discussing how the reading of the work of the poet and also dramatist William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) had influenced the literary project developed by the writer Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), in order to establish a comparative dialogue between the novel Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, and the tragedy King Lear, written by Shakespeare in 1605. We believe that by means of a critical process expressed in the reading Virginia Woolf did about the shakespearean text, the voice of the English bard dissolves into the poetic writing of the author and is assimilated and transformed by it, till the moment it becomes a single and distinct voice, namely, the woolfian voice. To support our analysis, we are based on some fundamental categories such as the concept of tradition discussed by the critic and also poet T. S. Eliot in his essay “Tradition and individual talent” (1968); of intertextuality presented by the professor Julia Kristeva (1974) based on the notions of polyphony and dialogism developed by Mikhail Bakhtin (2002); and the concepts of influence, (mis)reading and of human discussed by the American critic Harold Bloom in his books The anxiety of influence: a theory of poetry (1991) and Shakespeare: the invention of human (2000). With this in mind, we did our comparative analysis focusing on the two protagonists of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, and their dialogue with the characters king Lear and his clown. This way, we intend to show how the shakespearean voice of these two characters are evoked and then transformed by the protagonists of the novel, constituting, therefore, a process of (mis)reading of the play studied. In this sense, we conclude that the shakespearean voice of Virginia Woolf is a voice that, at the same time, is conscious of the new necessities required by her present time and also of the importance of centuries of tradition expressed, mainly, by the legacy left by Shakespeare to English and universal literature. / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo discutir de que forma a leitura da obra do poeta e dramaturgo inglês, William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), influenciou o projeto literário desenvolvido pela escritora Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), buscando, principalmente, estabelecer um diálogo comparativo entre o romance Mrs. Dalloway, publicado em 1925, e a tragédia Rei Lear, escrita por Shakespeare em 1605. Acreditamos que através de um processo crítico expresso por meio da leitura que Virginia Woolf faz do texto shakespeariano, a voz do bardo inglês vai se dissolvendo dentro da escritura da autora e por ela vai sendo assimilada e transformada, ao ponto de se tornar uma voz única e distinta, a saber, a voz woolfiana. Para tanto, nos pautamos em algumas categorias fundamentais para o processo de análise, como o conceito de tradição, cunhado pelo crítico e também poeta T. S. Eliot, em seu texto “Tradição e talento individual” (1968); o de intertextualidade, apresentado pela professora Julia Kristeva (1974), com base nas teorias da polifonia e do dialogismo desenvolvidas por Mikhail Bakhtin (2002), além dos conceitos de influência, (des)leitura e de humano, discutidos pelo crítico norte-americano Harold Bloom, em seus livros A angústia de influência: uma teoria da poesia (1991) e Shakespeare: a invenção do humano (2000). Com isso em mente, traçamos nosso percurso comparativo a partir da análise dos dois personagens centrais do romance de Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Dalloway e Septimus Warren Smith, dialogando-os diretamente com as figuras de Lear e de seu bobo da corte. Assim, mostramos de que forma a voz shakespeariana desses personagens vão sendo evocadas e transformadas pelos dois protagonistas do romance, constituindo, desse modo, um processo de (des)leitura da peça em questão. É nesse sentido, portanto, que concluímos que a voz shakespeariana de Virginia Woolf é uma voz que, ao mesmo tempo, possui uma consciência das novas necessidades exigidas por seu tempo presente, mas que também traz consigo o peso de séculos de tradição, expressos principalmente pelo legado deixado por Shakespeare para a literatura inglesa e universal.

xi, 198 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / In early modern England the word "measure" had a number of different but related meanings, with clear connections between physical measurements and the measurement of the self (ethics), of poetry (prosody), of literary form (genre), and of capital (economics). In this dissertation I analyze forms of measure in early modern literary texts and argue that measure-making and measure-breaking are always fraught with anxiety because they entail ideological consequences for emerging national, ethical, and economic realities. Chapter I is an analysis of the fourth circle of Dante's Inferno . In this hell Dante portrays a nightmare of mis-measurement in which failure to value wealth properly not only threatens to infect one's ethical well-being but also contaminates language, poetry, and eventually the universe itself. These anxieties, I argue, are associated with a massive shift in conceptions of measurement in Europe in the late medieval period. Chapter II is an analysis of the lyric poems of Thomas Wyatt, who regularly describes his psychological position as "out of measure," by which he means intemperate or subject to excessive feeling. I investigate this self-indictment in terms of the long-standing critical contention that Wyatt's prosody is "out of measure," and I argue that formal and psychological expressions of measure are ultimately inseparable. In Chapter III I argue that in Book II of the Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser figures ethical progress as a course between vicious extremes, and anxieties about measure are thus expressed formally as a struggle between generic forms, in which measured control of the self and measured poetic composition are finally the same challenge Finally, in my reading of Troilus and Cressida I argue that Shakespeare portrays persons as commodities who are constantly aware of their own values and anxious about their "price." Measurement in this play thus constitutes a system of valuation in which persons attempt to manipulate their own value through mechanisms of comparison and through praise or dispraise, and the failure to measure properly evinces the same anxieties endemic to Dante's fourth circle, where it threatens to infect the whole world. / Committee in charge: George Rowe, Chairperson, English; Benjamin Saunders, Member, English; Lisa Freinkel, Member, English; Leah Middlebrook, Outside Member, Comparative Literature

ix, 203 p. : ill. / As critic Jonathan Gottschall notes, "The literary scholar's subject is ultimately the human mind - the mind that is the creator, subject, and auditor of literary works." The primary aim of this dissertation is to use modern cognitive science to better understand the early modern mind. I apply a framework rooted in cognitive science--the interdisciplinary study of how the human brain generates first-person consciousness and relates to external objects through that conscious framework--to reveal the role of consciousness and memory in subject formation and creative interpretation, as represented in period drama. Cognitive science enables us as scholars and critics to read literature of the period through a lens that reveals subjects in the process of being formed prior to the "self-fashioning" processes of enculturation and social discipline that have been so thoroughly diagnosed in criticism in recent decades. I begin with an overview of the field of cognitive literary theory, demonstrating that cognitive science has already begun to offer scholars of the period a vital framework for understanding literature as the result of unique minds grappling with uniquely historical problems, both biologically and socially. From there, I proceed to detailed explications of neuroscience-based theories of the relationship between the embodied brain, memory, and subject identity, via detailed close reading case studies. In the primary chapters, I focus on what I consider to be three primary elements of embodied subjectivity in drama of the period: basic identity reification through unique first-person memory (the Tudor interlude Jake Juggler ), more complex subject-object relationships leading to alterations in behavioral modes (Hamlet ), and finally, the blending of literary structures and social context in the interpretation of subject behavior (Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One ). / Committee in charge: Lisa Freinkel, Chairperson; George Rowe, Member; Ben Saunders, Member; Lara Bovilsky, Member; Ted Toadvine, Outside Member

SARAIVA, Vandemberg Simão. Hamlet na Biblioteca de Machado de Assis: leitura e desleitura. 2011. 187f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2011. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-16T14:50:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_VSSARAIVA.pdf: 3087017 bytes, checksum: d0ed821b8eaae7ecca1ad3aed7abc6fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-23T12:16:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_VSSARAIVA.pdf: 3087017 bytes, checksum: d0ed821b8eaae7ecca1ad3aed7abc6fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-23T12:16:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_VSSARAIVA.pdf: 3087017 bytes, checksum: d0ed821b8eaae7ecca1ad3aed7abc6fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Este trabalho propõe-se a investigar a presença do Hamlet (1600-01), de William Shakespeare (1564-1616), em alguns textos de Machado de Assis (1839-1908). Procuramos compreender como o escritor brasileiro (des)leu a peça do dramaturgo inglês e a usou em sua criação individual. Intentamos expor a pertinência da leitura de Hamlet feita por Machado para a construção de alguns de seus textos, a saber, a Dedicatória e o prefácio “Ao leitor”, de Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881), os contos “To be or not to be” (1876) e “A cartomante” (1896) e a crônica “A cena do cemitério” (1894). Traçamos o percurso da obra shakespeariana – principalmente Hamlet – através da sua recepção elisabetana, neoclassicista e romântica. Sob o influxo do Romantismo, Shakespeare ficou conhecido no nosso país. Machado de Assis foi leitor das obras do dramaturgo inglês e expectador de apresentações teatrais de peças shakespearianas. Conforme sua literatura e crítica literária revelam, o escritor carioca foi entusiasta das criações de Shakespeare. Acreditamos que poemas, contos, romances e peças nasceram como uma resposta a poemas, contos, romances e peças anteriores, e essa resposta dependeu de atos de leitura e interpretação por escritores posteriores. Defendemos a tese de que a escritura de Machado de Assis é resposta à leitura de Shakespeare, destacadamente a peça Hamlet. Procuramos demonstrar que Machado de Assis apropria-se da obra shakespeariana, com a convicção de que o romancista brasileiro deslê a obra de seu precursor, Shakespeare, em sua própria escrita. Utilizamos o conceito de desleitura segundo Harold Bloom (1991), ou seja, como apropriação de uma obra anterior por meio de uma correção criativa, ou uma interpretação distorcida. Analisaremos os textos machadianos acima listados, em que Shakespeare mostra-se evidente, e os compararemos ao Hamlet do autor inglês, partindo da ideia de que esses textos não existiriam se Machado de Assis não tivesse lido a obra shakespeariana.

This study purports to examine several areas of similarity between the chronicle history plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Edward II and Richard II are alike in many ways, most strikingly in the similarity of the stories themselves. But this is a superficial likeness, for there are many other likenesses--in purpose, in artistry, in language--which demonstrate more clearly than the parallel events of history the remarkable degree to which these plays resemble each other.

This project charts two tandem phenomena in late modern Britain: the emergence of a new mode of political theatre that I term “claustrophobic dramaturgy” and the growth of the carceral state. Through close textual analysis, performance reconstruction, and archival research, I demonstrate how two generations of feminist playwrights have honed and exchanged a complement of narrative and/or theatrical strategies which stage their dramatic protagonists as entrapped. These literal representations of confinement work to suggest more abstract, structural modes of confinement, including criminalized social identities, punitive public policies, and new carceral technologies. I draw together a surprising constellation of plays, produced since 1979, and united by a common investigation of the impacts of privatization and austerity on British state institutions. Chapter 1 identifies social housing plays as a distinct sub-genre of British social realism. This sub-genre reveals how, as social housing became increasingly residualized, social renters were subjected to increasing state surveillance. Chapter 2 extends overdue critical attention to Clean Break Theatre Company, which has, since 1979, dedicated its entire oeuvre to the topic of women’s incarceration. Chapter 3 investigates theatre’s surprising preoccupation with psychiatric hospitals in the midst of broadscale deinstitutionalization and funding cuts to the mental health sector. Finally, Chapter 4 examines the conjunction of Shakespeare adaptation and claustrophobic dramaturgy, both to reveal how carceral logics are embedded in the Shakespeare texts themselves and to demonstrate the new political dramaturgy’s saturation of British theatre culture. To the field of theatre studies, this project advances a critical reevaluation of late modern and contemporary British theatre history. While Socialist theatre often has been characterized as the province of a white boys’ club of the 1970s, I demonstrate how women playwrights take up this Socialist mantle to decry the carceral consequences of dismantling the welfare state. Case studies of plays by Black British playwrights are central to each chapter, weaving the history of Afrodiasporic theatre in the UK into the heart of my account of dramaturgical innovation. This project also offers one of the earliest examinations of professional theatre guided by questions and insights from the growing, multi-disciplinary field of carceral studies. If, as carceral studies scholars assert, the carceral is an ever moving and expanding target, we, as audiences and scholars, can look to claustrophobic dramaturgy to illuminate new carceral incursions on civic life and institutions.

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."

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William Shakespeare es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los dramaturgos más brillantes y más representados del teatro universal. Su obra es ampliamente reconocida y considerada en la literatura y las artes escénicas por la riqueza temática que guarda y las múltiples posibilidades interpretativas que alberga, según el punto de vista de cada director. El reto de montar un Shakespeare no es sencillo, pues hay que combatir cierta resistencia del público hacia los llamados autores clásicos. El hecho de pretender acercar a Shakespeare al espectador de hoy conlleva siempre riesgos. Muchas veces se pretende actualizar a Shakespeare empleando recursos escénicos modernos, como vestuario, escenografia, modismos al hablar, etcétera. Pero sólo se consigue una modernización artificial que no cumple con la misión de revelar la verdadera esencia de la obra. La pieza, entonces, se puede convertir en el mejor de los casos, en una buena crónica moderna pero su temática pasará desapercibida, descontextualizada. Ante el problema de la modernización superficial, surge la invitación a realizar el montaje shakespeareano bajo la perspectiva de una verdadera contemporaneidad, la cual buscará compenetrar la temática de la obra con el contexto social del público. La coincidencia se vuelve un resultado feliz cuando el público encuentra en escena una problemática en la cual se reconoce y se identifica.