Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2016.
Original scientific paper
AUDIENCE AND REPERTOIRE IN THE CROATIAN THEATRE 1701–1800
Cvijeta Pavlović
orcid.org/0000-0002-5800-961X
; Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This study takes a repertoire of the Croatian theatrical performances as a sample for analyzing Croatian literary and theatrical characteristic features in the context of the 18th century European culture. At the general level of the history of literature it is possible to question the rank of the 18th century and its connection to the so called ancient history. On the other hand, there are some arguments for abandoning the simplifications about the 18th century as a century of a too long Croatian baroque. The particularities of the 18th century are apparent in the various notes and observations about the performances that are referring to the performance preparations as well as the audience reactions, i.e. the audience reception to the performed (of the visual as well as of the auditory aspect). The analysis of these particularities reveal that it is necessary to orientate the chronology of the idea of literary nation and national identity to the 18th century: the properties attributed to the 19th century as the modern time, modern era, the characteristics of romanticism, illyrisme, national revival/renaissance are already present in the 18th century.
Keywords
18th century; repertoire; audience; language; thematology; imagology; identity
Hrčak ID:
158025
URI
Publication date:
9.5.2016.
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