The Enchantments of Medea, by Antônio José da Silva: Textual Transmission and Recension
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https://doi.org/10.12957/soletras.2025.90060Keywords:
Philology, Critical edition, Recension, Os encantos de Medeia , Antonio José da SilvaAbstract
Although the first performance of the play Os Encantos de Medeia, written by Antônio José da Silva, was in 1735, the first printed testimony of its text was only published in 1744 in the collection Teatro Cômico Português. However, the existence of a single manuscript from 1782 with unpublished textual excerpts – 38 years after the first printed testimony and 23 years after the fourth printing of the first printed version – attract attention of AUTOR (2025) and was one of the texts analyzed by him. In this sense, the purpose of this paper, from a philological orientation (SPINA, 1977; BLECUA, 1983; CAMBRAIA, 2005), is to continue the investigation of the direct tradition of the text of this play, adding three testimonies not studied by AUTOR (2025), analyzing the textual differences between them, in order to understand the transmission of this text, as well as raising elements that may promote the elaboration of a critical edition of the text.
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