"Złowić wiekuistości niezmienne pierwiastki..." Baśń nocy swiętojańskiej Jana Kasprowicza

• Authors: Anna Podstawka

Title variants

EN

“To catch the unchanging elements of eternity…” The Midsummer Eve Night’s Tale (Baśń nocy świętojańskiej) by Jan Kasprowicz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This study is an attempt to present the dramatic works of Jan Kasprowicz, which for a long time have remained in the shadow of his great poetic oeuvre. What he wrote for the stage, though an inherent part of a lot of academic research, still needs comprehensive examination. The Midsummer Eve Night’s Tale is not among the artist’s most highly estimated achievements. He was commissioned to write it as a theatre prologue, which gave it the mark of an occasional piece, not too good for the reception of the work. It inaugurated the activity of the City Theatre in Lvov on 4 October 1900. Kasprowicz, using a recognizable code of signs, created a poetic show based on the “theatre within theatre” convention. At the same time he tried to include in it his own drama and theatre concepts, outlining the anthropological horizon of his theatre. They resound with allusions in the multi-layer coalescence of fairy-tale symbols, Slavic mythology and literary references pulsating in the space of modernist oneirism. By using folk sources and many motifs from masterpieces of world drama (Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Goethe, Słowacki, Hauptmann and others) the poet takes up fundamental existential themes which make up a poetic synthesis of the condition of man and the world.

Keywords

EN

Jan Kasprowicz; poet; drama

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu
• Journal: Rocznik Przemyski
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 2: Literatura i Język
• Pages: 37-63

Contributors

author

Anna Podstawka

• Katolicka Uniwersytet Lubelski; Instytut Filologii Polskiej

Identifiers

ISSN

0137-4168