De la Dame aux Camélias a la Traviataun ensayo comparativo

Abstract

A comparison is made among three famous works of art: La Dame aux camélias, the novel written by Alexander Dumas, Jr., the play of the same name written by the same author based on his novel, and La Traviata, the opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The three deal with the figure of the famous 19th century French courtesan Marie Duplessis. The purpose of the present work is to show that the same story has been created on the basis of different artistic genres, with the hypothesis being that different works of art can contribute to and shed light on one another. One goal of this work is to study the creation process of the three pieces of art, from their social and cultural context to the analysis of the people and the characters involved. Another goal is to compare the components of each work in order to see similarities and divergences, while also contrasting the phases of the various adaptation processes experienced in their creation and exploring the role that dramaturgy has played. It is believed that in the spectrum that goes from literature to music, various artistic genres have been developed, which make use of literary language as well as dramatic and musical language. Thus, works of art have been created through a process of adaptation that reveals the same reasons, the same events, and the same plots, in novels, dramas, and operas.