page_title: Dundo Maroje
hierarchical_section_title: Dundo Maroje
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Dundo Maroje
context_page_description: Dundo Maroje is a comedy by Croatian playwright Marin Držić. It is said to have been first performed in 1551 in the main hall of the Grand Council of the Republic of Ragusa by the company Pomet. The play consists of two prologues and five acts. The story deals with a conflict and misunderstandings between the older and newer generations during the Renaissance. The play takes place in Rome, but its characters are from Dubrovnik. George Thomas, a professor at McMaster University wrote that it is the author's "best-known work" and "the most enduring work in the history of Croatian drama". Renato Kragić of Slobodna Dalmacija describes Dundo Maroje as "among the top of dramatic literature in Croatian language" and that "should be in the pantheon of European Renaissance literature" Ante Kadić wrote in Slavic Review about Dundo Maroje being Držić's main work.
context_section_description: Dundo Maroje (lit. "Uncle Maroje") is a comedy by Croatian playwright Marin Držić. It is said to have been first performed in 1551 in the main hall of the Grand Council of the Republic of Ragusa by the company Pomet. The play consists of two prologues and five acts (ending did not survive). The story deals with a conflict and misunderstandings between the older and newer generations during the Renaissance. The play takes place in Rome, but its characters are from Dubrovnik. George Thomas, a professor at McMaster University wrote that it is the author's "best-known work" and "the most enduring work in the history of Croatian drama". Renato Kragić of Slobodna Dalmacija describes Dundo Maroje as "among the top of dramatic literature in Croatian language" and that "should be in the pantheon of European Renaissance literature" Ante Kadić wrote in Slavic Review about Dundo Maroje being Držić's main work. (need detail inside this book)
caption: Dundo Maroje published in Zagreb, 1939
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