THE TEMPEST ANIMATED: AN ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S WORK ADAPTED TO STOP MOTION ANIMATION

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the characters and the narrative of the adaptation to animated cinema of William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1610), performed by Stanislav Sokolov (1992). The film adaptation is the second episode of the Shakespeare series: the animated tales, an animation that was produced using stop motion animation technique with puppets. In the development of this article, for the theoretical study of film adaptation and stop motion animations, the texts written by André Bazin (1991), Robert Stam (2006), Linda Hutcheon (2013), Marina Estela Graça (2006), John Halas & Roger Manvell (1999) e Barry Purves (2010). The result of the analyzes shows that Stanislav Sokolov complements the senses and transposes new interpretative possibilities to the adapted work through a polysemic image, created from an artistic elaboration similar to the literary work, but that adds new interpretative possibilities which, however, are limited to maintaining the stereotyped representation of Caliban and reinforcing the figure of Prospero as a powerful man.

Keywords: Adaptation theory; stop motion animation; The Tempest.