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Return to "The Ass and the Shadow". Satirical Drama in the Contemporary Context.
Pečenková, Aneta ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
Satirical drama The Ass and the Shadow was introduced in the context of the historical, political, literary and theatrical events of the year 1933. The contemporary context was shaped and composed by comments V+W about their own production (in the Vest pocket revue magazine, in another periodicals and in the correspondence between the years 1945-1962), by contemporary publicism, the critique, other literary and non-literary texts. The context was also mediated by the secondary literature of the first and the second half of the twentieth century and of the present. With the kaleidoscopic interpretation, a new arrangement was created. An arrangement in which The Ass and the Shadow was still left to its natural world: to the jazz scenery, literary and artistically avant-garde, scenery which was influenced by the silent grotesque, circus clownery and cabaret shows. Attention was paid to the variations in the comicality of V+W (the drift from the so-called groundless humour to their own political satire) and to the possibilities and limits of political satire: its judgment, procedures and also, more specifically, its intertextual references. This literary and non-literary area was further extended by the dimension of economic and political-power field. It pointed to a high cultural and economical status...
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