Vida do grande Dom Quixote e do gordo Sancho Pança by Antonio José da Silva and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote de La Mancha: comparative aspects

• Autor(a) principal: Costigan, Lúcia Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Signótica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/8618

This article focuses on Vida do Grande Dom Quixote e do Gordo Sancho Pança,a play based on the second part of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which was writtenand performed in Lisbon by the Brazilian born New Christian Antonio José daSilva in 1733. Because the work of the Brazilian New Christian was modeledon Cervantes’s masterpiece, the analysis departs from a comparative approachthat takes into consideration aspects of the socio-cultural context of Spainduring the late sixteenth and early seventeenth, and that of Portugal during thefirst half of the eighteenth century, as well as literary characteristics of bothtexts. Since the Luso-Brazilian writer who admired Cervantes is still unknownto many within and outside the Portuguese-speaking world, before delving intothe comparisons of their literary works and the societies that engendered theirtexts, the study will also focus on biographical aspects of Antonio José daSilva, and on the impact of his work on the literary canon.