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See also:SZIGLIGETI, EDE (1814—1878) , Hungarian dramatist, whose See also:original name was Jozsef Szathmary, was See also:born at Nagyvarad-Olaszi, on the 8th of See also:March 1814. His parents would have made him a See also:priest; he wanted to be a See also:great See also:doctor; finally he entered the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of an engineer. But his See also:heart was already devoted to the See also:drama and, on the 15th of See also:August 1834, despite the See also:prohibition of his tyrannical See also:father, he actually appeared upon the See also:stage at See also:Budapest. His father thereupon forbadehim to See also:bear his name in future, and the younger Szathmiry henceforth adopted instead the name of Ede Szigligeti, the See also:hero of one of See also:Sandor See also:Kisfaludy's romances. He supported himself for the next few years precariously enough, earning as he did little more than twelve florins a See also:month, but at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he sedulously devoted himself to the See also:theatre and sketched several plays, which differed so completely from the "original" plays then in See also:vogue (The Played-out See also:Trick actually appeared upon the boards) that they attracted the See also:attention of such connoisseurs as See also:Vorosmarty and See also:Bajza, who warmly encouraged the See also:young writer. In 184o the newly founded Hungarian See also:Academy crowned his five-See also:act drama See also:Rosa, the See also:title-role of which was brilliantly acted by Rosa Laborfalvy, the great actress, who subsequently married Maurus JSkai. Szigligeti was now a celebrity. In 184o he was elected a member of the Academy and in 1845 a member of the Kisfaludy Society. He was now the leading Hungarian dramatist. Three of his plays were crowned by the See also:National Theatre and sixteen by the Academy. His See also:verdict on all dramatic subjects was for years regarded as final, and he was the See also:mentor of all the rising young dramatists of the 'sixties. During the See also:half-See also:century of his dramatic career Szigligeti wrote no fewer than a See also:hundred original pieces, all of them remarkable for the inexhaustible ingenuity of their plots, their up-to-date technique and the consummate skill with which the author used striking and unexpected effects to produce his denouement. He wrote, perhaps, no See also:work of See also:genius, but he amused and enthralled the Magyar playgoing public for a See also:generation and a half. Szigligeti's most successful tragedies were Gritti (1844), See also:Paul Beldi (1856), See also:Light's Shadows (1865), See also:Struensee (1871), See also:Valeria and The Pretender (1868). His tragedies, as a See also:rule, lack pathos and sublimity. Much more remarkable are his comedies. He is a perfect See also:master of the See also:art of See also:weaving complications, and he prefers to select his subjects from the daily See also:life of the upper and upper-See also:middle classes. The best of these comedies are The Three Commands of See also:Matrimony (185o), Tuneful Stevey (1855), Mamma (1857), The Reign of Woman (1862), and especially the See also:farce Young See also:Lilly (1849). He also translated See also:Goethe's See also:Egmont and See also:Shakespeare's See also:Richard III., and wrote a dramaturgical work entitled The Drama and its Varieties. A few of his plays have appeared in See also:German.
See P. Rakodczay, See also:Edward Szigligeti's Life and See also:Works (Hung.; See also:Pressburg, 1901) ; PM Gyulai, Memorial Speeches (Hung.; Buda-pest, 1879 and 189o). (R. N.
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