Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 50 No. 1, 2024.
Original scientific paper
Historical Reviews of Theatrical Criticism – From Affirmation to Scatteredness
Anđela Vidović
orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-5569
Abstract
Šime Vučetić’s (1949) approach to theatrical criticism was broad and, in a way, critical. It suggested essential flows, characteristics, and shortcomings of a historically categorized genre, which was typologically and lexicologically divided. The analysis was approached from the perspective of literary theory but was also insufficiently explored in general. The only historical review, ‘’Theatrical Criticism in Croatia’’ (1971) by Nikola Batušić, concludes with today’s genre veteran Tomislav Kurelec, who was a young critic at the time, thus confirming the claim. The objective of this piece is to cover notions on theatrical criticism from 1971 to the present day, explaining the insufficient research on this matter and understanding the reasons behind the genre’s scatteredness and the lack of a comprehensive understanding of theatrical criticism.
Keywords
Nikola Batušić; theatrical criticism; history of literature; literary theory
Hrčak ID:
316988
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Publication date:
8.5.2024.
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