ТРAГЕДИЈA JOBAHA РАЈИЋА И НАСЛEЂE АНТИЧКЕ ДРАМЕ У HOBOBEKOBHIM ШКОЛСКИМ ЛАТИНСКИМ ПОЕТИКАМА
TRAGEDY OF JOVAN RAJIĆ AND HERITAGE OF CLASSICAL DRAMA IN NEO-LATIN SCHOOL POETIC TEXTBOOKS

Summary/Abstract: The first Serbian drama in the genre of tragedy written by Jovan Rajic (1726— 1801) and published in 1798. under the title Tragedy or the sad history on the death of the last Serbian emperor Uroš V and on the fall of Serbian empire was originated as an adaptation of a stage play of Rajic’s professor Emanuil Kozachinsky Tragicomedy (1734). Kozachinsky’s play was typical school baroque drama and Rajic’s adaptation of it in a sort of classicistic tragedy was not only the simple changing the genre but also the changing the poetic. Unlike the general explanations of this poetical changing, proposed by previous reserchers, this paper tries to find the main source of Rajics’ perception of tragic poetry in the Neo-Latin poetic textbooks. Rajic wrote mostly under the precepts of these textbooks and as in the case of his other poetical works it is logical to expect the existing of connection between his drama and this poetic.

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