Fernando Pessoa and the Shakespeare’s “voice”.

Abstract

I will try to reflect on the sense of “emulation” that is perceptible in some texts of Fernando Pessoa, in what concerns the relations with some other canonical writers; I will discuss the relationship that Pessoa maintained with Shakespeare, as well as the dialogical relationship that is possible to deduce in the procedures of creation of Pessoa’s heteronyms and in the creation of Shakespearean characters. From this perspective, I will try to focus on several issues: in the "Shakespearean problem" (recalling some examples capable of clarifying a specific position of the Portuguese poet towards Shakespeare); In terms of "alterity" - as well as in the conception of Pessoa as "dramatic poet", of the "degrees of poetry" and of the "dialogical dynamics" of Fernando Pessoa's heteronymy (which immediately returns us to the theory of " Artistic lie "); In the problem of the "psychological figuration" of the poet of the heteronymic personages, as well as of the poet born in Stratford-upon-Avon; In the "anxiety of influence" (through which we will study the role of the heteronym Alberto Caeiro).