João Caetano
João Caetano dos Santos (27 January, 1808 – 24 August, 1863) was a Brazilian theater actor and director.
Considered the "father of Brazilian theater", João Caetano was the first Brazilian actor to play Shakesperean roles. "Relatively early in his career", he decided to play Othello and Hamlet under the influence of poet and playwright Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães in translations done by Magalhães himself, not directly based on Shakespeare, but rather on Jean-François Ducis, due the Brazilian Francophile tradition.
Prior to this achievement, even in colonial Brazil and with Caetano himself, productions of Hamlet or any other Shakespearean play began to be staged by companies that used versions in European Portuguese — Hamlet would be the first Shakespearean play to be translated into Brazilian Portuguese in a published edition, but only in 1933 by Tristão da Cunha.
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