Original scientific paper
KRIŽEVAČKI ŠTATUTI (THE TOWN OF KRIŽEVCI DRINKING STATUTES) IN THE CROATIAN ORAL DRAMA CONTEXT
Tanja Baran
; HRT, Hrvatski radio, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Križevački štatuti, the oldest and most well known Croatian wine drinking regulations are a mixture of dramatical, retorical and lyrical forms. Therefore, it is impossible to determine their key attributes. However, the dominant genre does falls firstly into the Croatian
oral folk drama, and not the folklore theatre. The Križevački Štatuti were written down, together with the Great Ritual of must (young wine) baptizing, before most of the other oral literary forms, but as part of the oral drama literature body they were determined only with the first synthesis. The Ritual functions during Martinje (St Martin’s Day) only, whereas the Štatuti Rules can be applied throught the year. However, if their texture, acting components and material objects are considered, both forms conform almost in full with the characteristics of folklore theatre, and they can be considered as the typical representatives of Croatian oral literary drama.
Keywords
Križevački Štatuti; oral literature drama; folklore theatre
Hrčak ID:
68534
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2010.
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