Abstract:
Since the 1940s, in his journalistic chronicles, Nelson Rodrigues has created a consistent discursive architecture that gives a specific meaning to the theater, in general, and to his plays, in particular. In dialogue with intellectual references from the Catholic world of his time (such as Jacques Maritain, Gilbert Chesterton, Gilberto Freyre and Gustavo Corção), the playwright produced a series of judgments which he used to discuss his fictional work. All nudity will be punished, assembled for the first time in 1965, is one of his plays that operates more directly with the aesthetic project produced by the playwright in his chronicles. In this article, I read this play in dialogue with the many conceptions carried out by Nelson Rodrigues in the newspapers, bringing up the figure of the playwright who stands as the first debater of his plays, acting forcefully on their reception.
Keywords:
Brazilian theatre history; Nelson Rodrigues (1912-1980); Cultural history