Images of Death in Agata Duda-Gracz’s Variation on The Tempest

Agnieszka Romanowska

Images of Death in Agata Duda-Gracz’s Variation on The Tempest

Publication date: 22.01.2018

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 235-244

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.17.019.7585

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Images of Death in Agata Duda-Gracz’s Variation on The Tempest

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The article presents an interpretation of Po Burzy Szekspira, Agata Duda-Gracz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as a play focused on the topic of death. The key feature of Duda-Gracz’s theatre is authorial scenography, in which the visual metaphor is the main vehicle of meaning, not less important than the text. Her variation on Shakespeare’s late drama is a story about unhappy life that results in frustration and desire for revenge, with death images being the most crucial elements of stage design, generated by amplifying the motifs of death found in The Tempest. Although Duda-Gracz concentrates mostly on individual suffering and personal failures, many stage design metaphors activate our collective traumas as well. Duda-Gracz’s play is an interesting example of how today’s theatre uses Shakespeare to deal with our fears, including the basic one – the fear of death.

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The Tempest, Po Burzy Szekspira, stage design, images of death., Shakespeare, Agata Duda-Gracz

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Information: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 235-244

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.17.019.7585

Article type: Original article

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Agnieszka Romanowska

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4659-4521

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 22.01.2018

Article status: Open

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