Do Clássico ao Popular: uma análise comparada das Obras o Santo e a Porca de Ariano Suassuna e a Comédia da Panela de Plauro

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis aims to comparatively analyze the works O Santo e a Porca (1957), by Ariano Suassuna, and The Pot of Gold (Aulularia, 3rd century BC), by Plautus, highlighting the intertextual relations established between them. This bibliographical research is grounded in theorists such as Koch (2000), Burke (2003), Nitrini (2021), Trevizan (2014), and Andrade (2010), whose studies address intertextuality, transculturation, comparative literature, and regionalism. The analysis shows that Suassuna reworks essential elements of the Latin comedy—such as greed, misunderstandings, family intrigues, and humor—adapting them to the sociocultural context of the Brazilian Northeast. In doing so, the author creates a dialogue between the classical and the popular, preserving the original comic structure while integrating aspects of Northeastern folklore, religiosity, and orality. Suassuna not only draws on Plautine tradition but also resignifies it within Brazilian cultural dynamics.The results demonstrate that the intertextuality between the two works reveals literary influences as well as cultural transformation processes that connect distinct historical, geographical, and aesthetic contexts. Thus, this study contributes to understanding literature as a space of continuous dialogue between the universal and the regional, reinforcing the relevance of Comparative Literature in shaping critical readers and valuing Brazilian cultural identity