This paper discusses certain South Slavic themes in Slovene dramatic writing from the second half of the 19th century. Through a presentation of the works Viktor Lipež Car Lazarjeva smrt (The Death of Tsar Lazar) (1860), Josip Klemenčič Zeta carja Lazarja (Tsar Lazar's Son-in-Law) ali Bitva na Kosovem polji (The Battle of Kosovo Field) (1870), Josip Jurčič Veronika Deseniška, Ivan Vrhovec Zoran ali Kmečka vojska na Slovenskem (Peasant Army in Slovenia) (1877) and Anton Aškerc Tujka (Foreign Woman) (1899) it affirms that Slovene authors paid considerable attention to Slavic, especially South Slavic historical topics, and that these topics formed an important part of the Slovene cultural horizon.
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