O modernismo teatral de Oswald de Andrade: uma análise da peça O Rei da Vela

Abstract

This mastery dissertation argues the life and workmanship of the writer Oswald de Andrade. It is an approach of its theatrical text, The King of the Candle, correlating it with historical analyses, possibly there are theoretical mixed text influences present in its play. It has for objective to understand the place of Oswald de Andrade in the modernization of the Brazilian dramatist, showing that Oswald searched to break the aesthetics, and that, with this behavior of rupture, he was able to produce an important workmanship for what was called modern Brazilian theater. In an exercise of comparative dramatists we will try to approximate The King of the Candle of the presumed artistic's of the European vanguards, considering a study between the Oswaldiana dramatist and the French theater of Alfred Jarry, with its play Ubu King. Thus, we not only analyze the modernist history directed toward the theatrical text of Oswald de Andrade, giving relevance to its appearance, specification and transformations, but, also, observing a little of the history of a society and a country.