O construto político da personagem shakespeariana Ricardo III à transposição intersemiótica em Francis Underwood da série televisiva House of cards

Abstract

This work approaches a comparative analysis in the perspective of the intersemiotic translation between the characters of Richard III, from the play Richard III, written by Shakespeare, and Francis Underwood, from the television series House of cards, produced by Netflix. The unfolding of this study aims at showing the translation procedures between the verbal linguistic codes for the visual audios concerned in the types of translation by indicial transposition and symbolic transcoding by Plaza (2013). In addition, the work was based on the conceptual notions of ideological sign by Bakhtin (2006), cross-cultural adaptation proposed by Hutcheon (2013), hypertextuality with Stam (2006), as well as the shakespearean studies of Heliodora (1978), among other authors referenced throughout this work. For this purpose, excerpts from the play have been selected, which Ricardo manifest his psychopathic personality to be analyzed with clippings of images and transcripts of audio subtitles in Portuguese spoken by Underwood, in the series, with similar characteristics. The focus of these excerpts direct, mainly, the speeches that refer to the idea of the political being emanating from the power struggle, many of them contained in the breaking of the fourth wall by Francis and the use of soliloquy by Richard. In the course of this research, were identified some strategies and influences of Shakespeare to build the of Richard III character, as well as the equivalence relations used by the translator to compose the of Francis Underwood9s character with skills as complex as those of the English playwright. In short, this analysis tries to share with the reader how it is possible to re-signify, through intersemiotic translation, an existing and authentic product and, even so, cause a great sociocultural impact through intermedia when translated into a new transposed object.