A RESEARCH PROJECT IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS IN POLISH DRAMAS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

• Authors: Schultze B.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the frequently acknowledged and yet insufficiently investigated shaping influence (or, 'patronage' as Zbigniew Herbert called it) of Shakespeare's plays on Polish literature and theatre in the 19th and 20th century. An examination of a few notable dramatic works shows that Shakespeare's contribution to the formation of their aesthetic form is by no means uniform. In 'Balladyna' Juliusz Slowacki draws on six or seven Shakespearean comedies and tragedies, as well as other literary sources, to build its non-mimetic, textual character-roles. While Witold Gombrowicz's 'Wedding' reformulates and sharpens the drama of consciousness (o, 'Bewusstseinsdrama', as defined by Harold Bloom) of Hamlet, Slawomir Mrozek mines Shakespeare's classic drama for cues and gestures to be redistributed among the characters of his 'Tango'. On the whole, however, the latter seems to be less rewarding for a student in search of Shakespeare's inspiring 'patronage' than the dramas of Slowacki and Gombrowicz.

Keywords

EN

GOMBROWICZ WITOLD; MROZEK SLAWOMIR; SHAKESPEARE AND POLISH DRAMA (19TH & 20TH C.) SLOWACKI JULIUSZ

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4-5
• Pages: 449-460
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schultze B.

• B. Schultze, Uniwersytet w Moguncji, Instytut Slawistyki (for postal address contact the journal editor)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03296805