CONCEPTION OF THEATRE IN VARIATIONS OF TIME OR HURBAN'S PARADOXES

• Authors: Kusnirova E.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The authoress deals with the theatrical activities of one of the leading representatives of the Slovak revolution 1848/49, Jozef Miloslav Hurban. This Protestant priest (whose wife became one of the first actresses about whom contemporary references in press have been preserved), belonged to the stirrers and supporters of the theatrical activities where he could see an effective way to wake up the national awareness in the wide layers of the population. The fact, that Hurban attributed to theatre a mobilizing function in activation of the national life is documented also by the action he had taken after completing the play The Old Compane in Brezova in 1848 - then he came with the proposal to organize a meeting of the representatives of nearby municipalities to elaborate a national petition. He was using theatre also as a political tribune. Noteworthy is also Hurban's activity of a critic in the Slovak Amateur Theatre, mostly after the Slovak National Theatre of Nitra had originated - in the magazine 'Kvety' (Flowers) (1841, 1842). Hurban by the end of his life - as allegorically expressed by V. Minac - was more Jesuit than Jesuits themselves, even though he was a Lutheran himself: he is evaluating the fire of Vienna theatre 'Musen-Temple' as a means of God's punishment. From Hurban's statement related to this event is following that in the hierarchy of values of a true supporter of nationhood there is religious ethos, duty to serve by all means to the national matter, and art in this sense should be subordinated to this basic function. The authoress is reminding also other Hurban's activities which are related to theatre - in the second half of his life he reflected to the theatrical activities of amateurs, e.g. theatrical activity of Trnava amateurs with whom his son S. Hurban Vajansky was performing, on the pages of the 'Slovak Views' (Slovenske pohlady) which he had been editing, then he dedicated relatively a big space to the issue of the Slovak drama, but also to its theatrical concretizations.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY OF SLOVAK THEATRE; HURBAN MILOSLAV JOZEF; SLOVAK DRAMA

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 211-216
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kusnirova E.

• E. Kusnirova, Presovska univerzita, Presov, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA05099695