Uma crítica à ditadura militar, por meio de alegoria, na peça o Santo inquérito

Abstract

This work makes an analysis of the play O Santo Inquérito, with an allegorical view. The play reports the judgement of Branca Dias, youngster condemned to bonfire during a visit of the Holy Inquisition to Brazil in the year of 1750. We investigated the possibility of the author, Dias Gomes, having used the play to protest against the military government, using the allegory as his main expressive resource, so achieving to mislead the censorship established in the period of dictatorship. To that end, we resorted, mainly, to the studies on the Theory of Allegory, by Flávio Kothe (1986); to those of Roberto Schwarz, about the left-winger cultural production in the initial years of the military dictatorship (1978); and also to the studies of the historian Sônia Siqueira (1978), which have contributed much to the comprehension of the inquisitory power in the Brazilian colony.