Teatr historii. Teatr wyobraźni. Juliusz Słowacki – Tadeusz Miciński
The Theatre of History, the Theatre of Imagination. Juliusz Słowacki – Tadeusz Miciński

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to present the parallels between Słowacki’s and Miciński’s dramatic works, with an emphasis on the domains that have not yet been compared. It juxtaposes the following aspects: spectacularity, theatricality, and the presence and functioning of meta-theatrical gags. The anticipatory character of Słowacki’s works with respect to the paradigms of modernist culture was noticed as early as by the end of the 19th century. In the 21st century, the search for similarities between these two authors’ texts is still justifiable, yet it neither implies abandoning the tropes outlined by the modernists, nor forces polemics with studies developed in the second part of the 20th century. Rather, it leads to a conclusion of blurring the borderline between the 19th century (tradition) and modernity (presentism). The perception of both writers through the prism of their dramatic works and theatrical gags highlights the parallels: the romantic (pre)modernist Słowacki and the modernist Miciński, the poets of the cultural, civilization, and historical turning points.

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