Medea y Jasón en el "Purgatorio" de Ariel Dorfman
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Universidad de Burgos
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- Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva (coord.)
- Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho (coord.)
- José Luís Lopes Brandão (coord.)
Publisher: Universidade de Coimbra ; Annablume
ISBN: 978-989-26-1297-3
Year of publication: 2016
Pages: 289-303
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
This article focuses on "Purgatorio" (2006), a play by Ariel Dorfman that revises the Medea and Jason myth. After a brief description of the play, this study analyses the most significant aspects of its treatment as “extended myth” and “subverted myth”, and its metafictional character; it also compares this play with other contemporary rewrites of the myth. Thus, we aim to show that the purpose of "Purgatorio" is to inquire into the psychological mechanisms that determine our emotional relationships and the way we suffer and forgive the violence that we exert over each other.
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