DIELA NEMECKÝCH DRAMATIKOV OČAMI UHORSKÝCH CENZOROV NA PRELOME 18. A 19. STOROČIA

• Authors: Kollárová Ivona

Title variants

EN

Works of German playwrights through the eyes of censors at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Enlightened reformers perceived the theatre as a space for adjusting the taste and the political, religious, and moral attitudes of the recipients. When they realized that the theatre has, or can have, a different, wider, deeper, and therefore more significant, cultural influence compared to the printed book, theatre ensembles came under the pressure of censorship and its premeditated rules about what is allowed and what is not allowed to be told, performed, and shown on stage. The study points out the reception of original and translated German dramatic works in Hungary, based on source research on censorial reviews and related sources. The censors’ argumentation reveals problematic zones, themes, and expressions in terms of the censorial triad of politics-religion-morality. Despite supervision and disciplining, the theatre gave scope not only for the enlightened education of adult audiences, but also remained a place for the artistic reflection of social issues and social criticism.

Keywords

EN

THEATRE HISTORY; CENSORSHIP; HUNGARY; GERMAN LITERATURE; GERMAN DRAMA

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5 – 20

Contributors

author

Kollárová Ivona

• Historický ústav SAV, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2231-5997

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2024-0002