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The study characterizes historical drama as a subcategory of the more widely understood literary term ‘historical genre’. The author views it as a specific genre in which the historiographical and the literary (dramatic) narratives converge, since it integrates characteristics that are typical not only for historiography as an independent scientific discipline, but also for literature as an autonomous verbal art. In the second part of the study, the author applies the theoretical premises to the historical drama of the nineteenth century, specifically to the dramas Rajnoha, zbojnícky hajtman [Rajnoha, the Leader of Bandits] by Štefan Petruš, Dimitrij Samozvanec [Self-Proclaimed Dmitry] by Ján Palárik, and Bitka u Rozhanoviec [The Battle of Rozhanovce] by Jonáš Záborský. She primarily focuses on the relationship between fact and fiction.