O entremez, o auto natalino e a dramaturgia em cordel: diálogos interculturais nas obras de Gil Vicente e Lourdes Ramalho

Abstract

The present study concerns in the analysis-interpretation of the plays: O Auto de Mofina Mendes by Gil Vicente and Presépio Mambembe by Lourdes Ramalho. This analysis was developed in a comparative perspective to investigate how the shape of the interlude is related with the Christmas play, in an open dialogue between the sacred and profane, the popular and tradition. Thus, we will study the interlude in its specificity as a hybrid form, highlighting its popular character - both detectable in the environment that the play is being performed, as in the actions and figurations of the characters within the same - and the carnival universe re-created in their relations with the historical and social process of production and reception. In the case of Lourdes Ramalho‟s work, there is also the use of parody, which will mark its dialogue in time with the Vincentian dramaturgy. To do so, we investigate, both historically and aesthetically the form of the Iberian interlude until his arrival in Brazil in the nineteenth century, as well as their relationships, during this reception, with the oral culture of the Northeast. The cultural intersection of the interlude and the handout Northeastern literature provide aesthetic and formal elements necessary for an understanding of what is called, in this study, dramaturgy in northeastern cordel („string‟).