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Dramatic texts of Witold Gombrowicz (motives, life, context)
Urbanová, Berenika ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Jiřík, Jan (referee)
Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz (1904 - 1969) finished during his life a total of three plays: Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (1936), The Wedding (1945), The Operette (1966). He is considered as a representant of absurd drama though his first play Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy was written already in 1935 and furthermore he did not declare his attachment to the aesthetics of absurd drama. In addition Gombrowicz was not a theatre lover in a common sense. According to his own words he did not appreciate theatre as a whole. Nevertheless his work is full of references to the principle of theatrality. Despite all the experiments on the fields of topics and language, the three Gombrowicz's plays maintain in principle the classical structure: dramas are locked up in three acts and regarding the formal aspects they are actually the traditional drama pieces, which can be read and played in the same way. "Aristotle's" three unities (the unity of action, the unity of place, the unity of time) are not followed, in this respect the closest link to Gombrowicz's plays leads to the romantic drama, Polish romantic drama in particular (where the time ambuguity is a characteristic feature). Furthermore he also drew inspiration from the works of William Shakespeare. Common features with Shakespeare's plays can be...
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Libuše Bráfová - attitudes towards living in family circumstances
Urbanová, Berenika ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee) ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor)
Libuše Bráfová, whose maiden name was Riegrová, was born on 20th of June 1860 in Prague. Her grandfather was František Palacký, famous Czech historian of 19th century and her father was an important politician, František Ladislav Rieger. In addition, her family belonged to Czech cultural elite of this time. Libuše spent her childhood on either at Mac Neven's Palace in Prague or the family summer residence in Maleč near Chotěboř. When she was eleven (in 1871), she started to go to a girlish school. After finishing it, four years later, she went to Switzerland to study languages in a boarding school in St.Gallen. She stayed there for several months, but her foreign studies were not over yet. After one year she arrived to France (in Morges) to study. She had been given a many-sided education. Libuše Riegrová spoke French, German, English and Russian language, she had lessons in History, Literature, Theology, Geography, Mathematics, Accounting and many more. Her drawing teacher was Amalie Manesová. She also visited shool of piano play. She was brought up in Bolzanos creed, but her faith was not so strong as her siste's, Marie. Libuše Riegrová had cultured interests. Libuse was a passionate reader and regular spectator of theatre plays. When she was about eighteen, she started to visit balls and society...
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Theatrum mundi - the theatre as a interpretation of the world (culturolgical analysis)
Urbanová, Berenika ; Soukup, Martin (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
The metaphor Theatrum mundi - we all are actors on the scene of the world - is known from Shakespeare's plays but it is an old topos, which is already shown in antcient Greek culture. Theatrum mundi could signify either a turning away from the material world in favour of heaven or the scrupulous study of the visible world; it could emphasize the essential hypocrisity of society as well as the centrialy of human action in the world. History of the metaphor is an interesting excursion to the history of european thinking. Theater metaphor suggests that knowledge is neither a mere reflection of what is known nor a fabrication, but a kind of performance or enactment. In my thesis I tried to focus on the history of this metaphor in the context of theory of theatricality. Theatrum mundi has many conjuctive subjects with others: e.g. "play within a play" and "life as a dream"; theme of spectaculatity implies some basics in sense of political manipulation. In chapter about social roles I tried to give a connection between old metaphoric theme and language of modern science.
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