Staging Heroes. Folk Plays and the Cult of Heroes at the Turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

• Authors: Wąsik-Linder Monika

Title variants

PL

Inscenizowanie bohaterów. Teatry ludowe i kult bohaterów na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the phenomenon of cultural performances in honor of great heroes,which created and maintained a patriotic tradition in Poland at the turn of the century. These performancesare presented as a result of a political project that was conceived as a didactic and persuasiveaction. Their goal was to try and create a new society, a new community united by the idea of a freeand strong Poland.

Keywords

EN

folk play; folk drama; Polish theatre; Mikołaj Kopernik; Tadeusz Kościuszko

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 311-320

Contributors

author

Wąsik-Linder Monika