RADICAL LEAR REVISITED: THE TRAGIC GENRE IN KUROSAWA’S RAN AND KOZINTSEV’S KING LEAR

Autores

  • Filipe dos Santos Avila Doutorando PGI-UFSC
  • José Roberto O'Shea Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18305/scripta%20uniandra.v14i2.506

Resumo

The present article aims at analyzing Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Grigori Kozintsev’s King Lear, taking into account the subversive potential of the tragic genre as discussed in Jonathan Dollimore’s classic study Radical Tragedy. To pursue with the investigation, we analyze here, in both films, the deaths of Lear and Cordelia (Hidetora and Saburo, respectively, in Kurosawa’s Ran) and the presence of the Fool. It is possible to conclude that, in the moments we analyzed in both films, the subversive potential of tragedy is explored, going beyond more traditional interpretations of the play text, showing Lear’s and Cordelia’s death not as moments of redemption, but rather as a continuation of an oppressive social order.

KEYWORDS: Shakespeare. King Lear. Tragedy. Kurosawa. Kozintsev.

 

Biografia do Autor

Filipe dos Santos Avila, Doutorando PGI-UFSC

Doutorando em Estudos Literários na PGI-UFSC.

José Roberto O'Shea, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20160019

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2016-12-31

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v. 14 n. 2 (2016): Shakespeare intermidiático, intertextual e intercultural

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