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Theatre director františek Adolf Šubert: Visionary or reactionary?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

From the reopening of the National Theatre in November 1883 until June 1900, it was by journalist, playwright, writer and cultural manager František Adolf Šubert (1849-1915). The personnel stability of the position, on which extraordinary attention and expectations were focused, makes it possible to view the dynamic social and cultural development of Czech society through the director's work.

The aim of the study is not an authoritative clarification of the causality of contemporary events, but a dialogue with problematic reception of F. A. Šubert's director's career and the articulation of new questions.

The title of essay polemically refers to schematic dichotomous thinking.