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The aim of the article entitled The world of theatre in the one-act play at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was to focus on one of possible aspects concerning one-act plays at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. On the Polish dramatic grounds, this vastly interesting time of the borderline between two literary periods was a time of emergence of one-act plays, being generally part of positivism, already inevitably passing (positivism understood also in terms of the history of Polish theatre and stage). The time also included emergence of works anticipating changes in drama which came to the fore in the 20th century. The dramatic practice, based on pièce bien faite classical poetics, was gradually becoming a thing of the past, and naturalistic as well as modernist tendencies were gaining more and more popularity. The one-act play was ceasing to be only a play for amateur or light stage, and started becoming a manifestation of the new style of modernist drama. A distinct signal of transformation of one-act plays was the presence of drama issues, especially understood as a distinct signal of metatheatricality and autothematism. By the use of the theatre meas of expression, the world began to speak about itself, thanks to which the stage transmission of one-act plays was becoming both a metatheatrical and autothematic expression.