Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil

“I want to write useful and verisimilar plays”, that was the first and the last intention of Manuel de Figueiredo, successively repeated during twenty years of activity and fourteen volumes of plays and texts about theatre, reading the Ancients and the Moderns (1756?-1777). But how many contradictio...

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Main Author: Maria Luísa Malato Borralho
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Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2011-01-01
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description “I want to write useful and verisimilar plays”, that was the first and the last intention of Manuel de Figueiredo, successively repeated during twenty years of activity and fourteen volumes of plays and texts about theatre, reading the Ancients and the Moderns (1756?-1777). But how many contradictions and hesitations hidden by this constant intention! We must considerer that Figueiredo was not a very well-known writer (even if Francisco Coelho de Figueiredo managed to publish his work after his death). His plays (with one calamitous exception) were never put on stage. He is often considered an academic writer, an imitator of Aristotle and the French Classicism. And yet to him, Aristotle and Corneille were not only a conventional source of knowledge, but the lever of a precocious way of thinking the relation between Inverisimilitude and Truth, Art and Reality, Literature and Dramaturgy.
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Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
Carnets
Inverisimilitude
Imitation
Manuel de Figueiredo
Theatre
Dramaturgy
title Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
title_full Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
title_fullStr Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
title_full_unstemmed Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
title_short Manuel de Figueiredo, atento leitor de Aristóteles e Corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosímil
title_sort manuel de figueiredo atento leitor de aristoteles e corneille ou de como o desejo de verdade pode naturalmente conduzir ao inverosimil
topic Inverisimilitude
Imitation
Manuel de Figueiredo
Theatre
Dramaturgy
url https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/5908
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