INQUISITION AT HISTÓRIAS DO TEATRO PORTUGUÊS: A LACK

Abstract

The Portuguese 18th century was a time of a great social and political movement. As has to be, this context reflects the cultural scene directly, as we will see in the different dimensions of the dramatic texts, which are written, went to the stage and circulate on the pages through the Setecentist Portugal. If there is a mutual interference between social, political, and cultural contexts, call our attention the absence of references about the Inquisition and others censorship mechanisms current on that time on the 20^th-century Portuguese Theatre History books, namely those wrote by Luiz Francisco Rebello (1967), Luciana Stegagno Picchio (1969), José Oliveira Barata (1991) e Duarte Ivo Cruz (2001). Our objective was to analyse how such lack of censorship references interferes on the Histórias reader’s perception about that theatre, and the implications of the Inquisition’s presence at 18^th-century dramatic production. At the end, we conclude that the selection of topics happens in every discourse, in name of contemplate a specific speech project, but which was disconnected of the lecture’s object. When this happens, it compromises the reader interpretation over the theme.