Abstract
Drawing from Lúcia Miguel Pereira’s assertion that Machado’s production of plays was mediocre, Edgard Cavalheiro seeks to understand how the writer transitioned from enthusiasm for the theater and giving up on it at an early stage in the Brazilian context. The essay lays bare Machado de Assis’s strength as a critic and his concept of art, which enable Cavalheiro to relativize the Machadian skepticism that.
theater; theatrical criticism; Machado de Assis; dramatic arts; Quintino Bocaiuva