Remembered and forgotten scenes from Okrugić's play Šokice

The text of the popular play Šokica written in 1884 by Ilija Okrugić, together with the inserted folk songs, is being compared to the performances of Okrugić’s plays in the Croatian National Theater in Osijek, with the intention of exposing elements of the assumed thematic or folk character which does not correspond to recent sociological circumstances and which is therefore omitted in stage productions. Also, regarding the fact that the reasons for forgetting individual scenes from that folk – didactical and folk – documentary drama, should also be sought in the incoherent structure of the dramatic text which does not suit a contemporary recipient. On the other hand, in the realization of Okrugić’s play, we attempt to find the reasons why individual scenes were stressed, primarily those that are characterized by a sentimental, melodramatic tone, but also those in which that which is originally folk and true finds its echoes even today. Ultimately, this paper tries to show which of the typological and ethnological variations present in Okrugic’s Šokica are timeless, and which are considered to be primitive and unusable to the present day public