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New Messengers: Short Narratives in Plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson

Author(s): Tomáš Kačer / Language(s): English

The publication introduces the “new messenger” as a specific type of dramatic character, a follower of the conventional „messenger“ whose presence in traditional drama serves several purposes, which the new messenger also fulfills. What makes it different is the fact that it is not an independent character, but the role it has is assumed by major characters in contemporary mainstream drama, such as journalists and reporters, politicians and their assistants, scientists and teachers, detectives and police officers, historical characters, philosophers and literary scholars, etc. The publication provides examples of the use of this type in a series of case studies of plays by two British playwrights Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard, and an African-American playwright August Wilson.

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Śluby. Poemat dramatyczny w trzech aktach

Author(s): Karolina Goławska / Language(s): Polish

In his 1907 review in the Słowo Polskie daily published in Lwów, the Polish writer Kornel Makuszyński ventured a tentatively critical judgment on The Vows, suggesting that appropriate distancing might be prerequisite when evaluating Przybyszewski’s work. That condition seems to have been met today: the passing of over a hundred years since the original publication has created not only a temporal but also a cognitive distance. A re-edition of the play offers an opportunity to read it anew. The word “read” is key here, since The Vows is by all means a literary text.

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Šake pune oblaka i druge drame

Author(s): Lejla Kalamujić / Language(s): Bosnian

Lejla Kalamujić has won our hearts with her excellent short story collection Call Me Esteban, and with this collection of plays she will keep us under the same strong impression. Fists Full of Clouds and Other Plays include the eponymous play, Let’s Turn off the Light, and She-Cannibal, which has been successfully staged in the Balkans. The plays are related by tackling the contemporary social problems: the stigma of homosexual and transgender people, loneliness of the elderly, and growing up without parents. Cutting deeply into the tissue of society, Kalamujić reveals also the destructive effects of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, whose citizens afterwards lost their sense of belonging. The author approaches her characters with warmth and empathy, offering them the possibility of a different, better future. To the deviations of humaneness Kalamujić responds with hope. Lejla Kalamujić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, where she graduated in philosophy and sociology. She published two short story collections, Anatomy of a Smile (2008.), and Call Me Esteban (2015). For the latter she won the “Edo Budiša” Award. She was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. She also won numerous short story awards.

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Košnice

Author(s): Ružica Aščić / Language(s): Croatian

The dramatic trilogy Beehives by the award-winning author Ružica Aščić places in the centre of each play one family with their key problems. The protagonists want more from their life than just passively going with the flow, but their endeavours face the opposition of their community that pushes their desires in the area of unacceptable. Because of the circumstances the characters become apathetic, and too weak to change their situation. The atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness, realised through apparently empty dialogues, emanates strongly from the texts, and wraps the reader like cobweb. The plays show a reverse gradation of the lack of willpower, and weakness, beginning with the first one, where the desire is clearly articulated but hits the wall repeatedly. In the second play, there is no desire anymore, just the sense of impossibility of realising any closeness. The third play is dominated by the general prohibition of love and humaneness. Ružica Aščić creates Antonioni-like atmosphere of desert where one has difficulty with finding a landmark, not to mention an oasis. Ružica Aščić was born in 1987. She published the short story collection The Good Days of Violence (2016). For the plays It Grows Inside of Me and Beehives she won the »Marin Držić« Award. She has published short stories in numerous Croatian magazines and one of them was included in the anthology Without Doors, Without Knocking: New Croatian Writers of Fiction.

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Политическите послания в турските сериали по българските телевизии и "Нетфликс"

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The text presents the main conclusions based on the study of the political messages in the Turkish series broadcasted on Bulgarian television and on Netflix. The main political messages in the series, showed on Bulgarian television, are the responsibility for decisions, connect with the life of a woman and a child. Among the important political topics are: migration, education abroad and returning home, conflicts between rich and poor.

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ЛЪВСКОТО ДРУЖЕСТВО В РИМСКОТО ПРАВО

Author(s): Stoyan P. Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article discusses the origin and meaning of the notion and the term leonine partnership, as well as the problems associated with the distribution of profits and losses between the partners in the consensual contract for partnership in Roman law. The fragment from the Digests of Justinian where actually is the unique mention of the expression societas leonina and this form of partnership is defined by the Romal classical jurist Cassius is subjected to a legal-dogmatic and linguistic analysis. The fable of Phaedrus for the partnership between a lion, a goat, a cow and a patient sheep which is considered to be the original source, used for forming the concept of the leonine partnership in Roman legal thought is completely analysed and interpreted. The author paid special attention to the magna questio (the great discussion) among Roman jurisprudence, dating from the period of the end of the Roman Republic with some projections and in the classical period in connection with the distribution of profits and losses in the consensual contract of partnership as a result of the partnership`s activity. And on the other hand the article examines the problem about the existence of privileges or restrictions for certain partners regarding the profits and analysis of the two leading opinions on the subject through the exegesis of a fragment of the Institutions of Gaius.

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Furia i szlachetniejszy rozum. Próby o "Burzy" Williama Szekspira

Author(s): Tadeusz Sławek / Language(s): Polish

As Stephen Greenblatt claims The Tempest summarizes all major preoccupations of other plays: legitimate power is abolished, civilization is threatened by wilderness, discourse is besieged by the darkness of inarticulate sounds, and theatrical performance looms large as a metaphor of human life. It is the final play of a great master and hence one is tempted to venture a hypothe-sis that, perhaps Shakespeare’s Prospero, like Ulisses in the XI canto of Odysei, speaks to us from the other side, from a dark and mysterious island of the dead, and his theatre is the only way in which we could approach death in the epoch of broken rituals and general disenchantment. Thus, Prospero’s famous line at the end of the play “Our revels now are ended” declares not only the end of the time of performance but refers to a much wider, Kermodian, sense of ending.

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Utwory dramatyczne – komedie i dramy

Author(s): Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz / Language(s): Polish

The publication constitutes a critical edition complemented with an introduction to the three comedies and two dramas by Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz (1755–1822) – a poet, prose writer, publicist, playwright and actor. It is the first modern edition of these dramatic works since their first publication in the late 18-th century. The introduction focuses on the publications and theatrical performances of the edited dramas, the author's inscriptions included in them. It also presents the main themes and subjects of these works, and highlights their theatrical and moral values. The editorial part of the study includes comedy and drama texts as well as commentaries.

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Makbet

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

The Tragedy of Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare, in a new translation by Piotr Kamiński. A critical edition with commentary.

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L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre/L’arte di vivere, di sopravvivere, di rivivere/El arte de vivir, de sobrevivir, de revivir. Approches littéraires. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź/50º anniversario degli studi dir

Author(s): / Language(s): French,Spanish,Italian

The publication, created to celebrate the jubilee of Romance studies at the University of Lodz, is a polyphonic reflection on the art of living / surviving, reviving. The chosen topic deals with the issues of a breakthrough, a reevaluation of the current modus vivendi. It also discusses the issue of relations with time, the themes of passing away, returning, and duration. From the perspective of literary studies, this topic was captured as the art of life understood as a set of intellectual, emotional, spiritual and moral attitudes of an individual towards existence in specific communities and in specific historical and socio-political conditions. The scientific character of the publication is ensured by an organized choice of content aimed at analyzing the aforementioned points, based on a wide corpus of texts from various eras and countries, and the use of multiple methodologies supported by a carefully selected bibliography. Since the monograph addresses the needs of a wide range of readers (students, literary scholars, literature lovers who speak Romance languages), it has the potential to exert considerable social influence.

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François de Curel et la crise du drame : de la « pièce bien faite » à la « pièce bien défaite »

Author(s): Tomasz Kaczmarek / Language(s): French

Curel’s works give tangible proof of a “rupture”, and not of a crisis of the drama, allowing the advent of a more open and free form ― in a word, more rhapsodic. It constitutes a departure from the traditional dramatic structure which is based on an ever-increasing tension that goes from the exposition through a myriad of adventures to the culmination of the action. As we remove the dynamic and logical attribute from it, the characters will not have their active function supposed to push the plot forward, either. In this context, the French playwright breaks the unity of time for the “benefit of temporal gaps between past and present” while emphasizing the drama experienced by the characters to the detriment of the agonistic action. It is in this way that these witnesses rather than agents of action no longer resemble acting heroes, but the unfortunate figures who incessantly and in an almost absolute passivity ruminate on their existential distress. Thus, “diegesis” replaces “mimesis”; plot progression being replaced by soul evolution.

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Човекът - изваден наново

Author(s): Enyo Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

The text offers a review of Prof. Miglena Nikolchina's monumental study "God with Machine: Subtracting the Human", dedicated to fundamental theoretical conceptualizations around anthropological issues. The review dwells in particular on the central conceptual paradox outlined in Prof. Nikolchina's book, namely the double determination of man as "a being who wants to be human" and “being who does not want to be human”

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Lucjusz Anneusz Seneka. Herkules szalony

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The Madness of Hercules is one of the tragedies written by the Roman philosopher and politician Seneca the Younger, who was Nero's tutor and advisor. He spent eight years in exile in Corsica during the reign of Claudius, and briefly exerted an influence over the ruler after Nero's rise to power. However, he was ultimately accused of plotting against Claudius and was forced to commit suicide in 65 AD. The Madness of Hercules is a work depicting a hero who devoted his entire life to fighting monsters in defence of humanity, but who was unable to protect his own wife and children from the monster within himself. Under the influence of the mad frenzy by his stepmother Juno, who hates him, Hercules brutally murders his family and then comes back to his senses and has to live with the crime he committed. The tragedy can be read as an allusion to the reign of Nero, but in essence it touches on the universal theme of evil and madness that lies within each of us, and asks what the basis of humanity really is.

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Вибрані методи драматичного виховання в контексті соціально-педагогічної діяльності

Author(s): Marie Pavlovská,Lenka Gulová,Zdenka Wagnerova,Lenka Remsová / Language(s): Ukrainian

The publication presents particular and effective methods that can be applied in a wide range of target groups in socio-pedagogical context. The first chapter presents the context between social pedagogy and drama education. A brief overview focuses on basics, short history, target groups and training of social educators. In the following chapters are described selected methods and approaches of drama education. The methods are: structured drama, drama in education and storytelling. Every single method is presented in theoretical context and in practice. The text reflects the experience of authors with the application of drama education to the education of pedagogical staff and into practice. The conclusion of the publication presents the practical lessons made by Ukrainian students under the guidance of their teachers.

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Opowiedzieć historię. Polska dramaturgia współczesna po 2006 roku

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Publication ”To Tell a Story. Polish Contemporary Dramaturgy after 2006” is an attempt to analyse the historical narratives in the newest Polish theatre and drama. Starting from the classical canon of memory studies, shaped by researchers such as Pierre Nora, Marianne Hirsch, Jan and Aleida Assmann or Maurice Halbwachs, young theatre researchers look at methods, reasons, aims and effects of including historical and memory narratives into performances and dramas. Due to the variety of research approaches and topics undertaken by both the authors of articles and theatre artists, the issue of telling the history in Polish theatre and drama was treated in a cross-sectional area. The book deals with the themes of peasant stories, stories related to the place (memory spaces), memory transfers between generations, or feminist revision of history, among others. Using examples of selected dramatic texts and plays (not only representing dramatic theatre, but also musical, puppet or physical theatre), the dramaturgical conventions and narrative strategies employed by theatre makers that influence the construction of stories about the past are analysed. 

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LIMITE

Author(s): Mihaela Michailov,Radu Apostol / Language(s): Romanian

The play launches an important debate about the roles and functions of teachers, about teaching practices and the need to update them to the digital era and its implications, about the integration of children with special education needs, about the increasingly problematic relationships between parents and teachers, about the ever-present bureaucracy, about the system. Education is seen as an ongoing struggle for authority. The play was developed following an elaborate research and documentation process. For several months, playwright Mihaela Michailov and theatre director Radu Apostol, interviewed dozens of teachers, education specialists, school inspectors, representatives from the Ministry of Education and theorists, to understand in depth the complexity of the problems they face and the solutions that can be activated.

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Familia Offline. Spectacol de teatru educational

Author(s): Radu Apostol,Mihaela Michailov / Language(s): Romanian

Family Offline is the show of fractured childhood between border parents (parents who go to work abroad) and children who stay at home. Whose parents are the children and how do they mature when mom and dad become a voice on the phone? Who is mother when mother is gone?

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Pe ce stam

Author(s): Mihaela Michailov,Radu Apostol / Language(s): Romanian

The play highlights the history of the Replika Educational Theater Center, a space that has gone through several conversions, starting in 1903, when it housed the first Italo-Romanian Hat Factory, and since 2015 it has become a studio theater.

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Разомагьосване, повторно омагьосване и фолклорни жанрове

Author(s): Ana Vukmanović / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Book Review: Disenchantment, Re-enchantment and Folklore Genres. Ed. by Nemanja Radulović, Smiljana Đorđević Belić. Belgrade: Institute for Literature and Arts, 2021. 286 pp. ISBN 978-86-7095-286-7

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Ryszard II

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Exquisite, fluent and precise translation by Piotr Kamiński, accompanied by an incisive preface and commentary by Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk, with a beautiful book design by Maciej Buszewicz. The edition is equipped with footnotes, the list of Polish translations and productions of "Richard II". "Richard II" tells a story about the consequences of political pragmatism which endows secular authority with religious sanction thereby postulating its inviolability. This new variant of classical hubris soon proves as destructive as its ancient equivalents. (The Preface)

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