Kytice
Encyclopedia
Kytice is a collection of ballad
s by the Czech
author Karel Jaromír Erben
, first published in 1853
and considered a classic. It is made up of 13 poems:
Kytice was a 1972 loose adaptation to a theatre musical
by Jiří Suchý
and Ferdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces in the history of his Semafor
theatre.
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
s by the Czech
Czech literature
Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past. Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other...
author Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice , which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes....
, first published in 1853
1853 in literature
The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detective.*William Wells Brown becomes the first African American novelist to be published.-New books:...
and considered a classic. It is made up of 13 poems:
- Kytice
- Poklad (Treasure)
- Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirts)
- Polednice (Lady middayLady MiddayPscipolnitsa is a character of myth and tradition, common to much of Eastern Europe.Referred to as Południca in Polish, Полудница in Serbian, Polednice in Czech, Poludnica in Slovak, Полудница in Bulgarian, and Полудница in Russian, the Pscipolnitsa is a noon demon in Slavic mythology...
) - Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
- Štědrý den (Christmas Eve); made into a melodramaMelodramaThe term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...
by Zdeněk FibichZdenek FibichZdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,... - Holoubek (Little Dove)
- Záhořovo lože (Záhoř's Bed)
- Vodník (The Water-Goblin)
- Vrba (Willow)
- Lilie (Lily), added in the 1861 second edition
- Dceřina kletba (Daughter's Curse)
- Věštkyně (Seeress)
Kytice was a 1972 loose adaptation to a theatre musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
by Jiří Suchý
Jirí Suchý
Jiří Suchý is a Czech film actor, writer and stage actor. He also writes music. Currently he is the owner of the theatre Semafor in Prague where he has performed for many years and helped establish in 1959.-References:...
and Ferdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces in the history of his Semafor
Semafor
Semafor is a Czech theatre in Prague established by Jiří Suchý in 1959. It belongs to the so called "Theatres of small stages". Suchý himself has performed there for many years and is the current owner...
theatre.
External links
- Full text of Kytice at WikisourceWikisourceWikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has...
- Several rhymed translations and an interview with the translator Susan Reynolds at Radio PragueRadio PragueRadio Prague is the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic.Radio Prague broadcasts in six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Russian. It broadcasts programmes about the Czech Republic on shortwave, satellite and on the Internet...
website, 19 September 2004: transcript and RealAudioRealAudioRealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is...
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