Original scientific paper
Amusing and/or comical in the marital life of Držić's characters
Boris Senker
orcid.org/0000-0001-5158-610X
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper draws on two papers written by Dunja Fališevac - on aged Freud’s visit to Marin Držić, and on the resigned renaissance “hero” Tripče - but also on the hypothesis that renaissance comedies “simultaneously educe two different, well arranged sequences: narration and rhetorical argument” (Jill Levenson) as well as the three stages of male-female relationship which Steven Greenblatt names “proposal, marriage and penance”. The paper analyzes courtship and proposal patterns in Grižula and Skup (peripherally also in Dundo Maroje), a staged wedding in Arkulin and “unwilling marriages” as “penance” in the comedy Tripče de Utolče. The analysis focuses on their amusing and comic features.
Keywords
Marin Držić; renaissance comedy; patterns of courtship; amusing and comic
Hrčak ID:
193016
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Publication date:
1.12.2017.
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