A tênue distância entre o telúrico e o onírico, os elementos míticos e a literatura: uma leitura de Sonho de uma noite de verão, de William Shakespeare

Abstract

This work presents a study about the elements proposed by the playwright William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as some information about the theatrical context in which the play was produced, the Elizabethan Period. In this context three aspects of this play are analyzed, namely, the mythological universe, the presence of the symbolic aspect and the dream as an element of the narrative. In each case study, mythological elements with its symbol and the dream which compose the theatrical text will be analysed. In other words, it points out the aspects in which mythology, symbolism and the dream are connected to form the narrative richness of the novel. The purpose of this paper is to examine A Midsummer Night’s Dream in light of Campbell’s studies about mythology, the revelation of the symbols elaborated by Cirlot and Chevalier and the analytic psychology developed by Jung. The result of this study is to bring a panorama of the associations established between literature and other human areas of knowledge.