A Retórica do Gesto de Lavínia em Titus Andronicus

Abstract

Considering gesture, a cultural manifestation of an attitude or a body "action", this work investigates the multifaceted, violented body of Lavinia and how it communicates through the gestures in the play Titus Andronicus of William Shakespeare, once his language is torn: "What a pain! That delicious instrument of her thought, which such pleasant eloquence always modulated, was plucked from the gentle cage, where, like a melodic bird, she sang soft and varied notes, which the ears of us all delighted” (our translation). Through Agamben, Benjamin, Flusser among other philosophers of the gesture, this work investigates the behavior of the gesture that communicates physicality and subjectivity (form and culture) and constitutes a discourse in Titus Andronicus. According to Galard: the gesture is the poetry of the act.