De Paul Groussac a Richard Morse: apropriações e releituras de A Tempestade de Shakespeare

Abstract

This essay aims to record the use of the characters Próspero, Ariel and Caliban, from the penultimate Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, in Latin America, during the century XIX and XX century. In order to achieve this aim, it was divided in four chapters. The first one intends to approach the main characteristics of The Tempest, and of its author, Willian Shakespeare. The second one analyses three authors’ interpretations: Paul Groussac, Rubén Darío and José Enrique Rodó. These thinkers are chronolycaly the first to use the characters on American land, which is marked by the Hispano-American War of 1898. The third chapter aims to understand the differences in the use of the Shakespearians metaphors in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Again, it selects three authors to record this new perception: George Lamming, Aimé Césaire and Roberto Fernández Retamar. The fourth and last chapter analyses the essay O Espelho de Próspero, by the North American historian Richard Morse.