PHI theme, Tradition and Innovation, invites researchers to think about the dialogue between past and present in the arts. This dialogue is the core theme of the PHI research program; running for some years now, it has existed long enough to allow the inclusion of the knowledge acquired as well as to renovate and foster new research lines. As a researcher of the Vicentine Theater, the present incites me to question the ties this art (based on literary texts and scenic representation) establishes with previous creative forms, sometimes from different fields. Using Alvaro Siza’s practice and theory, this chapter will focus on Gil Vicente’s last play. With no pieces of evidence of the original scenic play, but conscious that the dramatic text is a textual document whose key is found elsewhere (Ubersfeld 1977, p. 7) I will compare the letter and the spirit of the text (Olinda 1996) with the hypotext (Genett 1982) used to question the statement that “tradition is a challenge to innovation.” The aim is to see how the “father” of Portuguese Theatre “stood up to the challenge.” This comparison, summoning contemporary concepts, such as “dialogism,” “intertextuality” and “authorship,” unknown in Vicente’s time, historicizes the recreation process, examining the context it belongs to, placing each “thing,” new or old, in the culture and time it belongs to.
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