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Introduction to Studies on Gundulić's Melodramas
Rafo Bogišić
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In literary history and criticism no adequate attention is being paid to Ivan Gundulić’s first dramas (melodramas), those mentioned by the author in the dedication to his Pjesni pokorne kralja Davida. As is common knowledge, only two such entire dramas have been preserved (Prozerpina ugrabljena and Arijadna), while Dijana and Armida are only shorter mythological dramatic scenes. These first dramas by Gundulić represent both by their chronology and structure a separate, actually jointly with the contribution by Paša Primović (Euridice, 1617), the first stage in the life and development of melodrama in Dubrovnik (1608—1620). The significance of what Gundulić had commenced in Dubrovnik (in association with Primović) is most outstanding. Already in these works we encounter numerous, not solely ideological and thematic-motivational but also linguistic-stylistic and metrical elements which would later be presented in Dubravka and his other works. In this way these first dramatic works of Gundulić created in his youth exercised a decisive influence in this sphere also upon the whole subsequent Croatian dramatic and generally poetic-epic poetry. All poets in Dubrovnik (Palmotić and others) and in Dalmatia (Kavanjin in Split, Kanavelić in Korčula, and Ivanisevic in the isle of Brač) took the path designated by Gundulić in his youthful works. This path would later be joined also by poets from the North Croatian regions (e.g. Kanižlić in Slavonia). Gundulić’s works are possessed of special significance in view of Dubravka and its specific pastoral-idyllic mood. Pastorality and landscape, idyll and grove (»dubrava«), are present in Prozerpina and Arijadna. Besides pointing to some permanent elements of the Croatian pastoral, this could likewise be an evidence of Gundulić’s permanent and actual preoccupation with the beauties of Nature.
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30.6.1976.
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