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Pompa e circunstância
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The following work tries to disclose the obscure happening of 1926 in the city of São Paulo. Obscure because it vanished from the annals of History, but very argued by São Paulo’s newspapers and magazines of the period. There would be two presentations in Teatro Municipal which ended up, because of the success with the public, having two more performances with popular prices. The theatrical show had the purpose of raising funds to build a women’s school, from the Liga das Senhoras Católicas. To write the text the poet and writer Paulo Setúbal was invited, he never published this work and it is not even mentioned in his previous works published for decades by a São Paulo’s publisher. The cast consisted of amateur “actors”, members of São Paulo’s elite, carrying traditional family’s names from the city and some new ones, who had migrants’ surnames. The play is about a party that happens in Paço de São Cristóvão, where the guests talk to the birthday “girl”, the empress, and altogether remember the facts that led them to independence, while waiting for D. Pedro I’s arrival. What is intended from this praise? Glorify the empress? Glorify D. Pedro I’s role? And therefore, glorify the Empire? What was this republican elite intending?
Title: Pompa e circunstância
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The following work tries to disclose the obscure happening of 1926 in the city of São Paulo.
Obscure because it vanished from the annals of History, but very argued by São Paulo’s newspapers and magazines of the period.
There would be two presentations in Teatro Municipal which ended up, because of the success with the public, having two more performances with popular prices.
The theatrical show had the purpose of raising funds to build a women’s school, from the Liga das Senhoras Católicas.
To write the text the poet and writer Paulo Setúbal was invited, he never published this work and it is not even mentioned in his previous works published for decades by a São Paulo’s publisher.
The cast consisted of amateur “actors”, members of São Paulo’s elite, carrying traditional family’s names from the city and some new ones, who had migrants’ surnames.
The play is about a party that happens in Paço de São Cristóvão, where the guests talk to the birthday “girl”, the empress, and altogether remember the facts that led them to independence, while waiting for D.
Pedro I’s arrival.
What is intended from this praise? Glorify the empress? Glorify D.
Pedro I’s role? And therefore, glorify the Empire? What was this republican elite intending?.