LEVI HALL DE MOURA AND HIS DRAMATIC HAUNTINGS

AND HIS DRAMATIC HAUNTINGS

Abstract

This study will discuss the playwright from Pará, Levi Hall de Moura (1907-1983). Through his biography, briefly presented, along with excerpts from his plays, the intellectual profile of this author, who stood out as a lawyer, journalist, writer, and defender of social causes, will be presented. This article will emphasize how the supernatural becomes an essential element in his dramaturgy, acquiring mythical, mystical, and religious contours. To this end, Loureiro (2011), Maués (1966), Ramos (1988), Castro (1994), among others, will be used as theoretical support. Methodologically, a bibliographic survey of the author's work was carried out, his plays were read, and the texts in which the supernatural aspect achieves relevance in the plots engendered therein were selected.