Szekspir i estetycy : Kremer - Lewestam - Struve

Abstract

This article is an attempt to restore ideological and aesthetic views of Józef Kremer, Frederick Henry Lewestam and Henry Struve to the Polish humanities. It shows why, how and in what contexts Shakespeare functioned in Polish aesthetics of the nineteenth century. According to the researcher, the look at Shakespeare suggested by Kremer, Struve and Lewestam is connected with their efforts to formulate a definition for aesthetic categories such as genius, humor, tragedy, tragic guilt, and finally it is an example of reading ideologized, subordinated to the philosophical assumptions of the idealism or ideorealism and Christian world view. These are presentations in which Shakespeare appears as genius, without which we cannot understand the evolution of European drama from ancient to present times and changes which occurred in the European mind and consequently - in literature and theatre as a result of the appearance of the Christian religion. Genius, whose work stays in the range of moral values, which reveals the mystery of human soul, by which Providence speaks.