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Country drama in the works of L. N.Tolstoy and brothers Mrštíkové
Dembická, Lucie ; Hříbková, Radka (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Antonín (referee)
The key feature of realism in drama is capturing a person including all it's problems and flaws. Authors L. N. Tolstoj and Mrštík brothers in Government of darkness and Marysha congruently focused on life in countryside and the negative, almost destructive, way in which cities and their culture influence it. The aim of this thesis was to capture the main motives in the changes of life in Russian and Czech countryside. This analysis concludes that the most significant shifts are in peoples' morals, mostly due to the fact that both individuals as well as the whole society were intensively driven to earn and accumulate wealth, even at the cost of happiness, health or, sadly, human life. Tolstoj's drama also captures in more detail and depth abandonment of religion in pursuit of personal profit. Although the religious motive is an inherent part of rural mentality, it's mostly missing in the play by Mrštík brothers, who themselves were atheist. Significant space in those plays has been dedicated to female characters. They are described as either dominant, manipulative women with clear goals, or the authors emphasize their vulnerability and lack of experience. Matrjona and Lízalka are mature women whose main goal is to financially provide for their childs without any regard for their children's...
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Success and Failure of Vilém Mrštík (Maryša and Anežka)
Smolíková, Miroslava ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
The thesis called "Marysa and Anezka. Success and failure of Vilem Mrstik" deals with Marysa, a drama co-written by V. Mrstik and his brother A. Mrstik in 1894, and Anezka, a play finished by V. Mrstik in collaboration with his wife B. Mrstikova in 1912. Both dramatic works are introduced within the literary-historical context and within the personal history of the author. Introduction provides insight into source-books, the most important previous studies of the field and basic propositions around which the thesis revolves. The Marysa part expands the research of M. Ljubkova with information from correspondence between V. Mrstik and L. Stroupeznicky. It also questions the importance of V. Mrstik's inputs to the collective work and analyses premiere and critical reception of the drama, using contemporary reviews. The Anezka part follows genesis of the play with use of correspondence and manuscripts from literary archive of The Museum of Czech Literature (PNP). The genesis includes quotes of V. Mrstik defending the drama. The thesis also describes circumstances of Anezka's premiere and its disappearance from the stage and mentions the probability of guilty conscience that dramaturgist J. Kvapil might have had about V. Mrstik's suicide. Reception of Anezka is depicted with the help of contemporary...
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Theory of drama and its implementation in selected texts
RAICHLOVÁ, Denisa
This bachelor thesis engages in the theory of drama and its application in selected works. Its main focus is the Aristotle's Poetics, mainly chapters concerning the tragedy. The theoretical part engages in the elements of drama, the structure of drama, its history and the main drama genres. The second, practical part, comprises of confrontation of the classical Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King and the peasant games from the rural realism period, which are; Vojnarka from Alois Jirásek, Maryša from the Mrštík brothers and Gazdina roba from Gabriela Preissová. This section of the thesis shows just how comprehensively or unambiguously the Aristotle theory has been applied in the 19th century works in comparison to the Ancient Greece's texts.
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