Dziady (poem)

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A scene from Dziady entitled: "You hadn't shown us mercy, oh! Lord!"
A scene from Dziady entitled: "You hadn't shown us mercy, oh! Lord!"

Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is a famous poetic drama by a Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz considered to be one of the greatest works of European Romanticism[1][2][3]. For George Sand and George Brandes Dziady was the greatest realisation of the Romantic drama theory, among such works as Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Manfred by George Gordon Byron[4]. Its title refers to "Dziady," an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead (the "forefathers"). The drama is strong influenced by gothic fiction and epistolary novels such as Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse; it joins historiosophical and individual vision of a pain and slavery.

The drama's second part is dedicated chiefly to the Dziady feast celebrated in what is now Belarus.

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  1. ^ G. Olivier, Poema Dziady in Cabinet de Lecture, 26 April 1834
  2. ^ A. Segalas in Journal des Femmes. Gymnase Litteraire, 14 June 1834
  3. ^ G. Sand, Goethe - Byron - Mickiewicz in Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 December 1839
  4. ^ G. Sand, Goethe - Byron - Mickiewicz in Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 December 1839
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