Theatrum ve starší české literatuře
Theatrum in older Czech literature

Reflecting the concept by Eduard Petrů

Summary/Abstract: This study sums up the methodology of literary work by Eduard Petrů in the field of earlymodern literature. It reflects his account of “theatrum” as a term, including its use inrespective literature. First, its genesis since antiquity and early Christian beginnings iscovered, together with the term’s semantic scope modification during the Renaissance.Reflecting the spread of analogic thinking, the study traces Petrů’s concept of genre constitutionbased on “theatrical metaphor” which enables the depicted reality to be approacheduniversally, be it the world as a whole or any of its parts. The author of the studyponders on Petrů’s characteristics of moralist texts based on semantics of “theatrummicrocosmi” (i.e. Theatrum mundi minoris by Nathanael Vodňanský of Uračov) and encyclopaedicwritings based on semantics of “theatrum macrocosmi” (i.e. Theatrum divinumby Matouš Konečný, the plan of Theatrum universitatis rerum by Jan Amos Komenský).

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