A comédia como crítica social no teatro brasileiro: os tipos de cômico na peça o bem- amado, de Dias Gomes

Abstract

For the composition of the following work, we start from the concern that the story of the play O Bem-Amado by Dias Gomes generates in your readers. Here we propose a reflection on the use of the comedy genre in the theater as a strategy for making social criticisms. We will begin with an investigation of the first traces of the use of comedy as a strategy for making complaints from ancient Greece, considering his satires and comic pieces, passing through Rome, Middle Ages and Commedia dell'arte, until we get to the format of comedies made today. We will reflect on the laughter and absurdity in the types of comics found in the play by Dias Gomes, considering Henri Bergson's work on laughter, as a guide. Finally, we will reflect on the political moment in Brazil when O Bem-Amado had its first written version, considering the contexto in which the theater was inserted when the play was staged, in addition to its concerns and strategies in the face of the political dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964