Inês de Castro no cordel romance e martírio da bela Inês de Castro

Abstract

The symbolic figure of Inês de Castro has a fundamental role in Portuguese literature, being told and retold by several authors in the most diverse types of works, with varied approaches on the history of the Dama Galega and Dom Pedro I, who influenced several other cultures to perpetuate the love, romance and tragedy of Inês, including the cordel produced in Brazil. The present study aims to understand the role of the symbolic figure of Inês de Castro in the epic cordel Romance e Martírio da Bela Inês de Castro, published in 201 2, by the authors Jorge Furtado and Klevisson Viana. To this end, the theoretical framework produced by the researchers Maria José Azevedo Santos, Maria Leonor Machado Sousa and Christina Ramalho was used so that it was possible to know and understand the history of Inês de Castro and Dom Pedro I, as well as their myths and formation of a literature focused on the theme of Inesian literature. In addition, it is intended to understand what cordel is, or cordel leaflet, and what makes it an epic work. The analysis of the work allows classifying the structure, the rhymes, the meter arranged through its verses and stanzas, in addition to its poetic syllables. The figures present, woodcuts, are another feature interpreted in the analysis, with the climax of the proposed analysis being the discussion on the aspects that characterize the work as epic, having as crucial factors the fact that it is a long poem, with historical, wonderful or mythical planes. and literary arising in large part from Inesian literature.