Shakespeare: mediador cultural?

Abstract

Shakespeare's text illuminates the theatrical production, its greatness is based on timelessness — the representations of human anxieties and deep feelings, a fact that allows it to dialogue with the past, present and future — allowing the movement to transcend other cultures and societies, other times. Thus, attentive to time and geographic, political, cultural and social space, we seek to make efforts to map and rescue the presence of the tale — Novella VII, Un Capitano Moro, written by the Italian intellectual and playwright Giovan Battista Giraldi (Cinthio), between 1565-1566, the basis of Shakespeare's theatrical narrative, and to conduct a comparative study based on the texts (written in different times and cultural spaces). In addition to the brief comparative study — a goal that is not unprecedented in Shakespearean studies, we propose, as a novelty, the translation of the Italian novella into Brazilian Portuguese. In Cinthio, we also sought a theoretical framework to analyze the modern literary intersection and observe how Shakespeare may have been inspired by theoretical texts from the Italian Renaissance, in addition to the short story, to write the tragedy Othello, The Moor of Venice. However, our thesis also aims to sensitize the translator in relation to the space highlighted in the text (not only in the language with deictics, adverbs, etc.), especially that which is created in the context of culture. We were likewise concerned with analysing Giraldi’s work with the aim of deciphering and bringing to light his instinct as a man of the theatre, as well as expanding the fortune of the Renaissance author by giving new life to Giraldian studies in Brazil. To conclude our endeavour, we also ventured into developing a theatrical translation/adaptation of the Italian tale. In this way, our research proposes a theoretical reflection on theatrical translation, moving alongside cultural translation, and approaching Cinthio and Shakespeare from the perspective of a Latin American translator and researcher.