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Zaharia Barsan
Zaharia Barsan
(January 23 [
O.S.
January 11] 1878 – December 13, 1948) was an
Austro-Hungarian
-born
Romanian
playwright, poet and actor.
He was born in
Sanpetru
,
Brasso County
, in what was then the
Transylvania
region of
Austria-Hungary
. His parents were Zaharie Barsan, a small landowner, and his wife Maria (
nee
Vl?d?reanu). After completing a gymnasium in his native city in 1895, Barsan went to the
Romanian Old Kingdom
.
[1]
Settling in its capital
Bucharest
, he earned a degree from
Gheorghe Laz?r High School
.
[2]
He subsequently enrolled in the
Dramatic Arts Conservatory
, studying under
Constantin Nottara
and graduating in 1901. An employee of the
National Theatre Bucharest
from that point, he also participated in numerous traveling shows; between 1903 and 1913, he was a central figure of theatrical life in Transylvania. Following the province's 1918
union with Romania
, Barsan became the first director of the Romanian-language
Cluj National Theatre
, serving from 1919 to 1927, from 1931 to 1933 and finally from 1934 to 1936. Using a romantic, incantatory style, he performed tragic roles that included
Oedipus
,
Prince Hamlet
,
King Lear
,
Macbeth
,
Karl Moor
, and
Ruy Blas
.
[1]
Barsan's first published work consisted of verses that appeared in
Convorbiri Literare
in 1897. His poems, which had romantic and
S?m?n?torist
elements, appeared in book form as
Visuri de noroc
(1903) and
Poezii
(1907; 1924). His prose books
Ramuri
(1906) and
Nuvele
(1909) display marked
S?m?n?torist
tendencies. Barsan's most influential writings were his plays: the melodrama
Sirena
, first performed in 1910, in which the destiny of a maladjusted artist meets that of a domestic
lady of the camellias
; the 1914 drama
Se face ziu?
, about the
Revolt of Horea, Clo?ca and Cri?an
; and the dramatic poems
Trandafirii ro?ii
(1915) and
Domnul de rou?
(1938). His 1908 memoir
Impresii de teatru din Ardeal
is important both for its literary style and its documentary value.
[1]
Notes
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a
b
c
Aurel Sasu (ed.),
Dic?ionarul biografic al literaturii romane
, vol. I, p. 433. Pite?ti: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.
ISBN
973-697-758-7
- ^
Justin Ceuca,
Zaharia Barsan: monografie
, p. 8. Editura Dacia, Bucharest, 1978.
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