O homem e o gênio no Amadeus de Peter Shaffer

This paper aims at introducing the complex interpersonal relationship between the characters Mozart and Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979), while establishing their relative positions as “man” and “genius”in the plot. It also offers a brief discussion of the characters's quest for s...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Rocha, Ana Maria Kessler
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:1999
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repository:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/247929
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/247929
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Literatura inglesa : Teatro : Crítica e interpretação
Shaffer, Peter, 1926- : Teatro : Crítica e interpretação
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-. Amadeus : Crítica e interpretação
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Summary:This paper aims at introducing the complex interpersonal relationship between the characters Mozart and Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979), while establishing their relative positions as “man” and “genius”in the plot. It also offers a brief discussion of the characters's quest for some larger truth, and of the father-son conflict existing in the play — two recurrrent themes in the author's earlier works, namely The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) and Equus (1973).