Review article
Folklore, folk tradition and childhood in dramatic structure of Krleža’s Kraljevo
Marijana Togonal
; High School Kairos for Public Relations and Media Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the 95 years since Krleža wrote Kraljevo, various dramatic and scenic elements of the play have been analyzed and the author's specific view of the contemporary world was expressed in the form of a play. During that time, the accent was almost always put on the vanguard and expressionist novelties introduced by the author into his work, causing the play to be absent from the stage for a long time. The analyses and the reviews frequently omitted various elements of folk culture and beliefs as well as numerous autobiographical elements, embedded by the author into this play, which pushed the limits of the Croatian dramaturgy and set the new esthetic, dramatic (and stage) boundaries. The paper studies elements which connect Kraljevo to the tradition of folk plays, folk culture and folk customs as well as the influences of the author's childhood and images from the past which we come across and which are embedded into the dominantly expressionist structure of the play.
Keywords
Krleža; Kraljevo; folklore; folk culture; childhood
Hrčak ID:
174608
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2011.
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