VIRGINITY AND FEMALE HEROISM IN THE CROATIAN MEDIEVAL DRAMA THE PASSION OF SAINT MARGARITA

Sa？etak This paper analyzes the Croatian medieval drama The Passion of the Saint Margarita. The first part of the paper deals with the genre structure of virgin martyrs legends, while the focus is on the early Christian conceptualization of the phenomenon of martyrdom and virginity. Proceeding from the above, the second part of this paper analyzes the phenomenon of women’s heroic virginity in The Passion of the Saint Margarita