PLCS 28 (2015)
Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer

The Art of Drama According to Browning and Pessoa

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  • Flávio Rodrigo Penteado,
  • Caio Gagliardi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/b78a4503

Published 2016-09-22

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article we analyze Robert Browning’s and Fernando Pessoa’s interpretations and understandings of the concept of drama. Both writers, other than privileging the dramatic procedure of creation in literature, explored the limits of literary genres in their attempts to establish themselves as dramatic poets. Through an analysis of theoretical texts by Browning and Pessoa, we verify the points at which their conceptions both converge and diverge. To conclude, we discuss the relation of the English writer’s dramatic monologues to the heteronymic project.

KEYWORDS: dramatic monologue, Fernando Pessoa, Robert Browning

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