THE “TURKISH TOPICS’’ IN THE WORKS OF MATIJA BAN
Matija Ban (1818-1903), from Dubrovnik (Ragusa), had been drama writer
and engaged intellectual. During his professional life he was strongly
attached to the Ottoman Empire and its tradition. As an exponent of the
Serbian policy and diplomacy, he had offered totally opposed solutions
for improvement of the position of the Serbian population living in the
Ottoman Empire: from active advocate of the overthrowing the sultan`s
power to the practice ideas regarding the possible reforms. His
literary work cannot be separated from his political activities and
national intentions. In his dramas with the topic taken from the Serbian
national history, to the Ottoman characters, especially to the sultans,
he had given the position of the very clever and tolerant people. That
was in harmony with the tradition of the Dubrovnik diplomacy, as well as
the new position of the newly born Serbian modern state.
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- Матија Бан,
Мејрима или Бошњаци,
Књигопечатња Др. Данила
Медаковића, Нови Сад, 1851.
Matija
Ban,
Car Lazar ili Propast na Kosovu: Tragedija u 5 razdjela
,
Dubrovnik: Zabavnik Narodne štionice dubrovačke za godinu 1867
,
Brzotiskom Antuna Zannoni
,
Split,
1866, 25
-
144)
Matija Ban
,
Marojica Kaboga
, „Slovinac“, 1880,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14
.
Matija
Ban
,
Knez
Nikola
Zrinjski
:
Juna
č
ka
drama
u
pet
č
inova
,
Matica
hrvatska
,
Zagreb
, 1888.
Матија Бан,
Билогија: Таковски устанак, Ускрс Српске Државе
,
Дела
, књига
IV
, Београд 1889
-
1892
.
Матија Бан,
Драмски назори
, „Глас СКА“, Београд 1891,
XXV
.
[
Antun Fabris
]
Matija Ban
, „Dubrovnik” kalendar za 1901, 147
–
154.
Павле Поповић,
Матија Бан и његов књижевни рад у Дубровнику
,
СКГ, 1903, 431
-
433.
Kamila Lucerna,
U spomen Matije Bana Dubrovčanina,
„Ljetopis
JAZU“, 21,
1906, 1
-
49.