Petőfi Kecskeméten : Az életrajz egy pillanatának színháztörténeti tanulságai

Szilágyi, Márton (2023) Petőfi Kecskeméten : Az életrajz egy pillanatának színháztörténeti tanulságai. IRODALOMTÖRTÉNETI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 127 (5). pp. 580-589. ISSN 0021-1486

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Abstract

This study reviews and reinterprets a specific episode in the career of Petőfi Sándor (1823–1849), the period between 15 January and 7 April 1843, as a moment of particular importance in his process of becoming a poet. During these few months Petőfi spent time in Kecskemét with a company of travelling actors, and it was during these months that on one occasion he had the op- portunity to play the role of S hakeSPeare’s King Lear’s Fool. It was also during this period that he compiled the material for his unpublished volume of Ibolyák (the manuscript only came to light and became known in 1996). At only 20 years old, the young man displayed artistic qualities that would qualify him for a career as an actor or poet. From this point of view, therefore, it is easier to see and understand the change that Petőfi made a year later, when he broke with acting in 1844 (realising that he could not break out of the status of episode actor into which he had been relegated and could not become a leading char- acter actor) and devoted all his energy to poetry. From then on, theatre for him became primarily a hobby and a private amusement, while poetry was his real profession. Just as before, even as an itinerant actor, he was not prepared to put his literary work at the service of the theatre, either as a translator or as a dramatist, creating dramatic texts for his company. The choice was clear to him even then: either become an actor or a writer, but certainly not a theatre man who also worked as a writer. The study identifies the first serious appearance of this decision in the 1843 sequence of events.

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