%0 Journal Article %T Quando o cr¨ªtico se retira da plateia: a desilus£¿o de Machado de Assis com o teatro %A Mello %A Franceli Aparecida da Silva %J Machado de Assis em Linha %D 2011 %I Funda??o Casa de Rui Barbosa %R 10.1590/S1983-68212011000200009 %X the creation of a high-level national theatre was part of a political project which the generation of machado de assis embraced with enthusiasm, that is to say, the modernization of society with a view to inserting brazil in the "civilized world". in this essay, i try to demonstrate how much machado de assis engaged in this project through his theater reviews as well as discuss the reasons for his withdraw al from the theater at a certain moment of his life. %K theater reviews %K modernization %K theater in brazil %K chronicle. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1983-68212011000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en