A produção intelectual de Décio de Almeida Prado sob o signo da modernidade: transições entre a crítica teatral e a historiografia do teatro brasileiro

Abstract

The present work intends to investigate the intellectual production Décio de Almeida Prado for the establishment of the relations between his theatrical critiques and his historiographic texts through a central theme in the documentation by us listed: modernity in Brazilian theater. In this sense, through the analysis of the works Presenting the Modern Brazilian Theater, Theater in Progress, Findo Exercise (corresponding to the publications of his theatrical critiques in the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo) and The Modern Brazilian Theater (historiographical text), we try to establish the nuances Interpretations that enabled us to understand the positional transformations existing in these two discursive forms. The main objective was to understand how the texts of Décio de Almeida Prado were fundamental in establishing an aesthetic hierarchy for national productions, thus delimiting an organization that guided the writing of a history of national theater. And, finally, we establish to what extent the transition from the discourse of the critique to the discourse historiográfico made possible the displacement of themes and ideas carried out the process of transformation of the interpretations on the modernization of the national theater. This transition, therefore, was responsible for establishing ruptures, legitimations and resignifications of the positions of Décio de Almeida Prado in the determination of a history for modern theater in Brazil.