When Theater is at the Vanguard:

Ludovina Soares da Costa and The Deaf and Dumb or the Abbé de l’Épée: an Historical Drama

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Performance, Gender, History of Brazilian Theater, Deaf Studies, History of Deaf Education

Resumo

This article investigates the staging of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly’s play L’Abbé de l’Épée, [The deaf-mute or the Abbot de l’Épée] during Brazil's imperial period. The objective was to analyze how multiple discourses on deafness that circulated in the media, combined with the performance of the Portuguese actress Ludovina Soares da Costa as a deaf-mute young man motivated the founding of Brazil's first institution for the deaf, in Rio de Janeiro. The documentary study surveyed material from the newspaper collection at the Hemeroteca da Biblioteca Nacional, for periodicals from 1810 through 1860, reviewing ads, news and reviews of the performances. The results highlight the transmission of conceptions about deafness in the local society through theater.

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Biografia do Autor

Lucia Helena Reily, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Lucia Reily has a Bachelor of Arts from the Independent Learning Program at Indiana University. She earned a Revalidation in Art Education for the Plastic Arts from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1978). She has a master's degree in school psychology and human development from the Universidade de São Paulo (1990) and a PhD in School Psychology and Human Development from the Universidade de São Paulo (1994). She is currently an associate professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. She works in the field of education, with an emphasis on special education and art education, mainly on special education, disability studies, art and disability, teacher education and visual arts. 

Cássia Sofiato, Universidade de São Paulo

Cássia Sofiato is a professor at the Faculdade de Educação Teachers College] of the Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP), in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences (EDF) and the Graduate Program in Education. She conducted post-doctoral studies at the College of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Universidade do  Porto, Portugal. She worked as a visiting professor at the Universidade de Porto, in Portugal, under the call for projects Edital Print-Capes (2020 and 2021). She holds a PhD and a master's degree in the arts from the Universidade Estadual de  Campinas (Unicamp) and a bachelor's degree in pedagogy, in the field of teacher education for special education from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas.

Publicado

2024-06-09

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Reily, L. H., & Sofiato, C. (2024). When Theater is at the Vanguard: : Ludovina Soares da Costa and The Deaf and Dumb or the Abbé de l’Épée: an Historical Drama. Revista Brasileira De Estudos Da Presença, 14(3). Recuperado de https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/138780

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Performance e Gênero II

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