This short notice analyses the Czech folk play ‘A Shrewish Wife and a Desperate Husband’, written in the second half of the 17th century in the Silesian region of Kravaře. Its anonymous author used a contrast principle and architectonic correspondence (based on numbers five and six) when composing this play which takes place on the sacral day of St. Cecilia.
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