Adalékok az erdélyi magyar színészkultusz vizsgálatához
On Our Cultic Behaviour towards Actors

Summary/Abstract: My paper is based on three important essays of Transylvanian authors; all of them are theatre historians: Szabolcs János, Ágnes Katalin Bartha, and Sándor Enyedi. Szabolcs János’s paper contains a few data and citations about the functions of theatre in the 18th and 19th century: he says theatre was often seen then similarly to school or church. Ágnes Katalin Bartha writes in her book about the role of the actor in the 19th century, mostly of a special actor-director, Gyula Ecsedi Kovács. We understand from her study why people could like an actor and how people were able to show their affection at that time. Sándor Enyedi published a collection of citations about Kolozsvár’s old theatre. In my paper, I analysed these texts: I wanted to find all rhetorical elements which show that the speakers of the texts have a cultic behaviour toward theatre, toward actors.

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