Casamento, vida privada e comicidade à luz das comédias de Plauto e Gil Vicente

Abstract

The present paper aims to study Plautus´ pre-classical roman comediographyas well as Gil Vicente´s in portuguese Humanism, considering the concepts of family,marriage and private life under critical and theoretical perspectives. Having"Aulularia" and "Comédia do Viúvo" as for our research, initially we started acorpusdetailed study of the social relevance of these concepts at Roman Republic and alsoat Portugal in the transition between the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Then,analyzing these works, we aim to identify how these concepts and themes aredeveloped in the plot. Based on the concept of comicality and possible strategies toobtain it of Henri Bergson and Vladimir Propp, we intend to determine thecomediographers´ converging and diverging approaches while developing thesetopics, also elucidating the influence of social way of thinking in literary expression.These comicality study will be developed based on the philosophical and theoreticalworks of Gilles Deleuze, Mikhail Bakhtin and Friedrich Nietzsche