Kreteńskie adaptacje wzorców włoskich w dramacie XVII wieku
Cretan adaptations of Italian models in 17th-century drama

Author(s): Małgorzata Borowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Crete; Renaissance; drama; Troilos; Foskolos; originality; adaptation
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the permeation of cultures – Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) – on Crete during the last two centuries of the Venetian rule (i.e. the 16th and 17th century). The author analyses the emergence of drama written in the colloquial Cretan dialect but based on Classical – Renaissance models, which is an original contribution of Veneto-Cretan cultureinto Modern Greek Literature. The readers are given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with this relatively unknown literary and cultural phenomenon. Passages of dramas that have not been previously translatedas well as their thorough descriptions are provided, including Ioannis Andreas Troilos’s tragedy King Rhodolinos (1647), one of the most interesting examples of creative and original adaptations of Western tradition, and a comedy Fortunatos (1666-1669) by Marc Antoine Foskolos.

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