Utemeljivački mitovi u slovačkoj i srpskoj drami

The paper focuses on the analysis of dramatic texts on historical themes that deal with the so-called founding myths of the Slovak and Serbian people. Mytho-motorics or mythologization represents the creation of myths based on historical facts (with minor or drastic deviations) in order to establish the image that a community has of itself and defining it’s values. It serves to create a fixed image that is transmitted from generation to generation and creates national identity in collective memory. This image is subject to transformation, because it is subject to reexamination in each subsequent generation in accordance with current social needs. On the Slovak side, it is about the memory of the Great Moravian Principality, which is examined by V. Klimáček in the text „Mojmir II or Twilight of the Principality”, and on the Serbian side, it is about the acute problem of Kosovo, presented in the dramas „Was There a Prince’s Dinner?” by V. Ognjenović and „The Battle of Kosovo” by Lj. Simović. In these texts, we follow the development or change of the myth from the initial romantic matrix to the present day and its (mis)alignment with current social needs.