fairies quarrel over which of them an apple bearing the words "for the most beautiful" was left for. A pastor takes them to a judge, and after the judgement the fairies run amok in the forest with the pastors. - a judge of peace and justice in the grove/Dubrovnik, who established a momentarily disturbed peace. (??) Komedija treća (the third comedy) is, with regards to genre, a Croatian dramska robinja ('dramatic threnody'). The position of the fairy who laments, however, turns this pastoral dramatic threnody into a real scene play: agony and competition akin to a moreška between a satyr hunter (nature) and a seeker of youths (culture), a kind of deux ex machina while freeing the slave-girl. The unfinished Komedija četvrta (fourth comedy), a fragment of earlier texts on the topic of moreška, dramatises the theme of peace and freedom in the grove. ‘’Komedija peta’’ and ‘’Komedija šesta (the fifth and sixth comedies) are, with regards to genre, the first examples of farce in Croatian literature; both realistically show life in a Dubrovnik home, cultivating the theme of unfaithful men. They adjoin the tradition of Middle Age farce and ancient mime. In Komedija šesta (published in 1873), a farce similar to the fifth and reminiscent of French mediaeval farce, the plot entangles itself: a housemaid was smitten with the lord, but so was the midwife; having found this out, the woman pretends to be dead, and the priest calms the situation. The social criticism of this comedy was stronger; the language was more crude, and the situation harsher and more naturalistic.Komedija sedma (the seventh comedy), a snippet of Dubrovnik life as well as a farce and divided into three acts, has some characteristics of Plautine erudite comedy and Roman mime (romantic intrigue). Based on real dialogues and concrete details, characters and images of Dubrovnik life, it is a kind of forerunner to Marin Držić's Dundo Maroje, but also Novela od Stanca. Works Pjesni ljuvene - Love poems Pjesni od maskerate - Carnival songs Sedam nenaslovljenih komedija - Seven untitled comedies Pjesni bogoljubne - Poems of piety/religious devotion'' References Sources Further reading 16th-century Croatian poets 16th-century male writers 16th-century Croatian people 1500s births 1587 deaths Croatian male poets Male dramatists and playwrights People from Dubrovnik Renaissance writers