"Uma grande sombra que se sente e se não vê": Belkiss nos trilhos da literatura dramática simbolista

• Autor(a) principal: Cabral, Maria de Jesus
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2010.5182

Published in 1894, in strong line with a time of crisis and questioning of new paradigms of theatrical representation (Mallarmé, Maeterlinck), the dramatic poem Belkiss, Rainha de Sabá D’Axum e do Hymiar of Eugénio de Castro was not noticed in the field of dramatic Literature of the 19th century and had not the critical attention it deserves. Starting from the contextualization of the work, this article aims to show how the aesthetic project that underlies it establishes a dialogue and interacts both with contemporary texts embedded in a symbolist aesthetics valorising mystery (Maeterlinck and D. João da Câmara), and with other attempts to invade a theatre of the soul, valorising the word (Pessoa and Sá-Carneiro). The analysis of the poetic and metaphysical substance of Belkiss will lead us to discover some aspects of its “disturbing strangeness”, in relation to realistic illusion and to the theatre of pure entertainment that dominated the stages in the 19th century.