Behind the curtain: dictionary of dramatic author’s from Rio Grande do Sul contributes to literary history

Abstract

This paper aims on considerations about gaúcha dramatic literature since Antenor Fischer’s recent publication in the form of a dictionary. When gathering entries of authors of theatrical texts, from XIX until early XX century, Fischer reflects on the contribution of the dramatic genre in the construction and consolidation of the literary and theatrical productions of the State. With that in view, as the researcher arguments, that this genre appears to be in a “second plain” in the literary historiographies, it becomes necessary not only it’s inclusion, but also to assure it’s importance when it evidences, among other aspects, the repercussion of the abolition theme in the scope of the eighteenth hundred’s society and the expressive space taken by comedy in gaúcho theaters, as well as the changes, of a ‘text-centered’ period to a staging-theater period and it’s performance characteristics of the XX and XXI centuries. This way, it is intended, through a thorough reading, present, and thus, contemplate the Dicionário de autores da literatura dramática do Rio Grande do Sul (2014) as a significative work to literary history.