SANTOS Zoando o bardo: burlescos shakespearianos Tradução em Revista 25, 2018.2 171 espalhando-se por toda a Europa e atingindo o seu auge no século XIX, principalmente na Inglaterra e nos Estados Unidos. A obra de Shakespeare foi a mais revisitada pelos autores de burlescos da era vitoriana, destacando-se as tragédias, e entre estas, Hamlet. Este ensaio enfatiza a importância dos burlescos em geral, e a dos shakespearianos em particular, que contribuíram para a crescente popularidade da obra

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... Bardo, rindo dele e com ele. Palavras-chave: William Shakespeare; burlesco; era vitoriana; Hamlet. Abstract Burlesques, also known as burlettas, travesties and extravaganzas, originate in Italy in the seventeenth century as a kind of comic interlude and spread throughout Europe, reaching their highest popularity in the nineteenth century, chiefly in England and in the United States. Shakespeare's work was the one most constantly revisited by burlesque authors in the Victorian Age, who focused on his tragedies and most frequently on Hamlet. This paper aims at highlighting the importance of the burlesques in general and the Shakespearian ones in particular, which contributed to the increasing popularity of the Bard's oeuvre, laughing at and with him.