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The balcony scenes in Romeo and Juliet have been recreated in various forms all over the world. This chapter discusses the ways the two scenes have been appropriated, either as serious borrowing or as comic parodies in a number of Brazilian adaptations: a 1949 Brazilian “chanchada” comedy, Carnaval no Fogo (Carnival in Fire), Maurício de Sousa’s Mônica e Cebolinha No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta (Mônica and Cebolinha In Romeo’s and Juliet’s World, 1979), a series of comic sketches broadcast in 1968 by SBT, and three television shows, namely Globo TV’s 1980 “caso especial” (“special issue”) Romeu e Julieta and the novelas (serials) entitled Pedra Sobre Pedra (Stone Over Stone) and Fera Ferida (Wounded Beast). The discussion focuses on the appropriative nuances emerging from the cultural constraints characteristic of Brazilian cultural and social identities as well as the time of their creation. Diversity and national identity are here seen as a way to bring to the fore the sense of nationality as it has been developed since the Brazilian “Manifesto Antropófago” (Anthropophagic Manifesto).
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da Cunha Resende, A. (2022). What “Doth Grace for Grace and Love for Love Allow”? Recreations of the Balcony Scenes on Brazilian Screens. In: Joubin, A.A., Bladen, V. (eds) Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare. Global Shakespeares. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6_6
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