Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology

This paper focuses on two film productions of the Shakespearean play Hamlet (1600-1601), both made in Brazil in the 1970s. It is my contention that A herança (“The Inheritance”), by Ozualdo Candeias (1970), and O jogo da vida e da morte (“The Game of Life and Death”), by Mario Kuperman (1971), cons...

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Main Author: Marcel Amorim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2023-05-01
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/92576
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description This paper focuses on two film productions of the Shakespearean play Hamlet (1600-1601), both made in Brazil in the 1970s. It is my contention that A herança (“The Inheritance”), by Ozualdo Candeias (1970), and O jogo da vida e da morte (“The Game of Life and Death”), by Mario Kuperman (1971), constitute intertextual works which can be understood as transcultural, anthropophagic adaptations of the Shakespearean drama.  
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spelling doaj.art-f90b776099514fc59b6906c9adeffc692023-05-25T21:34:35ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaCadernos de Tradução1414-526X2175-79682023-05-0143110.5007/2175-7968.2023.e92576Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation MethodologyMarcel Amorim0Federal University of Rio de Janeiro This paper focuses on two film productions of the Shakespearean play Hamlet (1600-1601), both made in Brazil in the 1970s. It is my contention that A herança (“The Inheritance”), by Ozualdo Candeias (1970), and O jogo da vida e da morte (“The Game of Life and Death”), by Mario Kuperman (1971), constitute intertextual works which can be understood as transcultural, anthropophagic adaptations of the Shakespearean drama.   https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/92576AdaptationCultural AnthropophagyHamletWilliam Shakespeare
spellingShingle Marcel Amorim
Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
Cadernos de Tradução
Adaptation
Cultural Anthropophagy
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
title Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
title_full Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
title_fullStr Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
title_full_unstemmed Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
title_short Devouring Hamlet: Cultural Anthropophagy as an Adaptation Methodology
title_sort devouring hamlet cultural anthropophagy as an adaptation methodology
topic Adaptation
Cultural Anthropophagy
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
url https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/92576
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