Cinderella in dramatic text: Contributions to a history of children’s theatre censorship in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Ana Margarida
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Fernández, Ramón Tena, Vázquez, José Soto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.5106
• topic: Censorship; Children’s Theatre; Adaptation; Traditional Literature; Censura; Teatro infantil; Adaptação; Literatura Tradicional

The aim of this study is to analyse a corpus of theatre texts that revisit and recreate the Cinderella story and which were submitted to Censorship in Portugal throughout the 1950s and 1960s, during the Estado Novo [Dictatorial Regime], while also presenting their evaluation. This paper focuses on the analysis of the texts, especially in terms of the exercise of textual adaptation of the literary matrix as well as the censorship intervention or not, in order to identify the literary themes and motives that are promoted or censored by the political regime. The nine analysed texts also illustrate different types of theatrical performances, with different audiences and purposes, with textual and literary consequences on the texts as well, an aspect that the paper also addresses, contributing to the enrichment of the history of children's theater in Portugal.