Romantic nationalism
In the first half of the 19th century, plays about the characters of the Kosovo Myth have been published by Serbian authors educated in the Austrian Empire, who adopted ideas combining Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic nationalism. Some of the dramas were works by Zaharije Orfelin, the " Miloš Obilić" (1828) by Jovan Sterija Popović, "Tsar Lazar" or the "Fall of the Serbian Empire" (1835) by Isidor Nikolić and the "Miloš Obilić" (1858) by Jovan Subotić. Matija Ban, a Serbian poet, dramatist, and playwright from Dubrovnik, included the motives of the Kosovo myth in the drama "Tsar Lazar or the Defeat at Kosovo" (1858), gradually giving them the values of Romantic nationalism.