"Male weaklings" a 19th century actor specialisation as an example of moral censorship?

The article concerns the specificity of actor specialisation in Polish theatre of the 19th century. It is an attempt to look at the phenomenon through the prism of questions taken from research on moral censorship. It sheds some light on the principles of the so-called realistic idealism which was the basis of stage art and visual culture of the era shaped by academic art. The theme of the article is the actor specialisation of a romeo and the changes occurring in this specialisation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.