Os Menecmos de Plauto e Os Estrangeiros de Sá de Miranda em uma abordagem comparativa

Abstract

This work aims to create a dialogue between aspects of popular culture present in the theater of Plautus's play named "The Menecmos" and the Sá de Miranda's trama named "Os Estrangeiros" establishing a comparative approach between the two works. They are thinkers separated by centuries, but linked by the popular nature of the ancient theater. This feature was recreated by the Portuguese Renaissance, the theater of the sixteenth century. Plautus will be examined in his play "The Menecmos" through his text and the representations in the Roman theater, in situations of comic background. The use of characters of the plot called "type" is a feature of Plautus´s the technique. Sá de Miranda was the true messenger of the Renaissance in Portugal, a great imitator of the Roman theater and this was revisited by the Portuguese Renaissance theatre which Sá de Miranda is the great representative