Intermedial performance aesthetics in Patricia Fagundes' A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Main Author: Anna Stegh Camati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2013-12-01
• Series: Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura
• Subjects: Intermediality, Media Combination, Intermedial References.
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/4942

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-1595), Shakespeare introduces elements borrowed from court masques, mainly music and dance. After a brief exploration of critical arguments claiming that Shakespeare’s play is the model for musical versions produced during and after the Restoration, this essay investigates the negotiations and shifts of meaning in the homonymous Brazilian adaptation (2006), staged by Cia. Rústica and directed by Patrícia Fagundes. The intermedial processes, articulated in the transposition from page to stage, will be analyzed in the light of contemporary theoretical perspectives.