Critical reading of dramatic literature for children and youngsters: the case study of “O Macaco e a Velha” by Ivo Bender.

Abstract

This work proposes a critical reading of dramatic literature for children and youngsters produced in Brazil, in the middle of the 1970s, from the case study of “O Macaco e a Velha” by Ivo Bender. From the relations between theatre and literature, drama stands at the confluence of those artistic expressions, therefore, the performance is supported by the construction of the language as literature-dramatic matter, non scenic, theatrical. In this way, it carries out its historical contextualization performing a survey and intersection of the intrinsic qualities of the language, bringing forward the similarities and differences of each analyzed period. Such an approach allows us to reveal that the researched play balances the pedagogic practices of one tradition and the artistic forms more purely aesthetic of the more recent one, in other words, it translates all the transience of a writing contaminated by paradigms which attract and repel themselves, producing something unique, conservative and renewing at the same time.