Klas dramatickej klasiky
A Cob of dramatic Classics

Summary/Abstract: A theatrical historian Ladislav Čavojský on the ocassion of the national Slovak festival of theatrical stagings by Slovak classic and contemporary dramatits in Palárik's Raková wrote his study on one of the founders of the modern Slovak drama Ján Palárik, a native of the community Raková. He is approaching his life fortune (as a catholic preacher with a strong nationhood understanding, he was accused of „Pan – Slavism“ and moved to a German vicarage to Hungarian Pest) and above all, he is dealing with his artistic creation for theatre. He is analysing the position of his three comedies (Drotár, Inkognito, and Zmierenie, or Dobrodružstvo pri obžinkoch – Tinker , Incognito and reconciliation or Adventure in Harvest- Home) and one historical drama (Dmitrij Samozvanec Dmitrij the Self- Appointed) in the history of the Slovak theatre. He is reminding of the fact that a preacher and dramatist is also a composer, he traced a record on presentaion of his Smútočný spev(Mourning Voice) to part with his friend, a chairman of Matica slovenská, a bishop Štefan Moyses. He is observing that even nowadays the creation of Palárik serves an inspiration to theatrical artists and becomes a basis for origination of works of art sought by the public (e.g. the cycle of stagings directed by Ján Sládeček).

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