Metadrama: Rewritings and Forgeries in Shakespeare, Barrales and Radrigán

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The following article approaches two rewritings of William Shakespeare’s work within current Chilean playwriting: Shakespeare falsificado: reconstrucción falsificada de un manuscrito censurado (2011), by Luis Barrales and La Tempestad (2015), by Juan Radrigán. It proposes rewriting as a metadramatic exercise, a conscious gesture -both political and dramatic- that seeks to establish dialogue and discussion with its original, inscribing a new authorial perspective within the cultural tradition continuum. With this approach, this work exposes, first, characteristics from English renaissance dramaturgy as a hybrid praxis, collaborative, refounding and political. Then, it characterises both rewritings as practice that showcase the currency and continuation of a cultural, literary and dramatic canon through different articulations that print themselves in our voices. Likewise, Barrales and Radrigan’s perspectives display themselves as political gestures expressed towards their contexts. 

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Carolina Brncić Becker

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Carolina Brncić Becker, Universidad de Chile

Universidad de chile

Departamento de Literatura
Av. Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1025 Ñuñoa, Santiago
Código postal 7750000(Chile)

Brncić Becker, C. (2019). Metadrama: Rewritings and Forgeries in Shakespeare, Barrales and Radrigán. ALPHA: Revista De Artes, Letras Y Filosofía, (47), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.32735/S0718-220120180004700165

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