Time and Drama: From the Absolute Present Tense to the Simultaneity of Temporalities

Authors

  • Rodrigo Alves do Nascimento Universidade de São Paulo
  • Bruno Barreto Gomide Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.73-89

Keywords:

time, drama, Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

Abstract

At the turn of the twentieth century a new form of dramaturgy emerged in which the characters’ temporal experience became a decisive thematic element. Likewise, time itself became a formal problem that was both visible and productive. Such a process is evident in Ibsen’s, Maeterlinck’s and Strindberg’s plays, which led to decisive breakthroughs in the neoclassical theater tradition guided by a temporality in which drama and scenic representation were enclosed to the experience of an absolute present. Within this impulse of renewal, Anton Chekhov’s plays – The Three Sisters in particular – had a crucial role. As we shall see, these plays accommodated simultaneity of temporalities in their dramatic threat. Furthermore, such pieces also brought realism to its limits and destabilized the very relation between the time of the text and the time of the scene.

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Author Biographies

Rodrigo Alves do Nascimento, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutorando do Programa de Letras Estrangeiras e Tradução da Universidade de São Paulo. É autor de "Tchékhov e os palcos brasileiros", publicado pela Editora Perspectiva (2018). Atualmente conduz uma pesquisa sobre o problema do tempo na dramaturgia de Anton Tchékhov, com bolsa FAPESP.

Bruno Barreto Gomide, Universidade de São Paulo

Professor Livre-docente de Literatura e Cultura Russa na USP. Doutor em Teoria e História Literária pela Unicamp, com estágio de doutorado CAPES em Berkeley. Pesquisador visitante no Instituto Górki de Literatura Mundial (Moscou), na Universidade de Glasgow, no Púchkinskii dom (S. Petersburgo), em Harvard, no Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies da UC Berkeley, IAI (Berlim) e na Universidade de Londres. É autor de "Da estepe à caatinga: o romance russo no Brasil (1887-1936)", publicado pela EDUSP.

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Published

2019-03-29

How to Cite

Nascimento, R. A. do, & Gomide, B. B. (2019). Time and Drama: From the Absolute Present Tense to the Simultaneity of Temporalities. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 29(1), 73–89. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.73-89

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2019): Da Palavra à Cena: Itinerários do Teatro no Ocidente

Section

Dossier – From Word to Scene – Intineraries of Theater in the West

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