Jovan Sterija Popović

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Jovan Sterija Popović


Born
in Vršac, Serbia
January 13, 1806

Died
March 10, 1856

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Jovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School (The University of Belgrade was established in 1808 from the Belgrade Higher School). He made fun of snobbery, vanity, fad and false patriotism and was a writer whose work exceeded the limits of literary epoch he wrote in.
Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals of his time and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature.

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Tvrdica

3.32 avg rating — 2,060 ratings — published 1837 — 13 editions
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Pokondirena tikva

3.83 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 1838 — 4 editions
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Родољупци: весело позорје у...

3.93 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1849 — 2 editions
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Tvrdica, Pokondirena tikva

3.68 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2002
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Роман без романа

3.72 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1838 — 2 editions
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Laža i paralaža

3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Davorje J. St. Popovica

3.48 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Zla žena

4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1987
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Izabrane komedije

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Ženidba i udadba

3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014
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“Sapr đabl sundier susunprprpardon.”
Jovan Sterija Popović, Tvrdica, Pokondirena tikva

“Докле се год будемо само хвалили, слабости и погрешке прикривали, у повесници учили колико је ко од предака наших јуначких глава одрубио, а не и где је с пута
сишао, донде ћемо храмати и ни за длаку нећемо бити бољи...”
Jovan Sterija Popović, Родољупци: весело позорје у пет дејствија