Meraviglia o teatro de Jose de Anchieta / Meraviglia the theatre of Jose de Anchieta

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The Meraviglia theater of Jose de Anchieta, religious representation of Brazil s XVI century is studied in this thesis in its aesthetic and ideological aspects. Aesthetically, the ?meravigliosa? Jesuitical dialectics places in scene, in each single and hiding place of the Atlantic forest, aspects of the popular theater, the use of the daily space of the spectators, words in its own language, the mockery with their customary behaviors, the mimes, skills and grimaces of the characters of the Evil in contradiction to the seriousness of the characters of the Good, angels and saints. In scene, as synthesis, a representation, at the same time religious and popular, sacred and profane with comic and serious aspects, divine characters acting together with characters of flesh and bone (?caraíbas? friends of the priests, old native women, ?morubixabas?, rude tenant farmers, ?mestizos?..). Ideologically inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignacio de Loyola, the mentor and founder of the Company of Jesus, Anchieta creates a theater to the service of the church to convoke the inhabitants of Brazil to the fight against the flag of the Evil, Satan, Lucifer, Lutero, Calvin, ?caraíbas? and shamans- the Babylonia, and, mainly, the dramatically fight of the spirit to win the desires of flesh and heart. In this game, the occult representation in the shades of the allegories is the true reason of this fight: to bring the souls of the natives, the tenant farmers, the boys of schools, for the Catholic Church and the Company of Jesus. In stage, the victory is of the Good, of the Jesuits, versus the Evil, the old religion, the wandering ideas?. In other words, Loyola and later Anchieta, forged by the Exercises, develop a powerful instrument, the representation, to teach for Brazilian wandering souls the way of true life, the perpetual one, in the Celestial Jerusalém, the City of God

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jesuitas pedagogia pedagogy teatro culture cultura jesuits brazil colony theatre

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