In 2019 we mark the centenary of the first staging of the play Hlapci (Serfs), which Cankar wrote in 1909, and which since then has enjoyed different interpretations within literary studies, as well as many different stagings. Although Cankar wrote from the very beginning that this was his greatest work, upon its publication and premiere it did not receive such high ratings, but now it has become a fundamental work of Slovene drama. In this contribution, I present some interpretative emphases and more recent staging concepts.
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