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The figure of Leonard Sowinski (1831-1887) - poet, novelist and dramatist from the second half of the 19th century - oscillates in between social states, national cultures and literary periods. Born in the house of Polish nobleman and Ukrainian peasant-woman, living in the Ukraine studying at the University in Kiev, he combined two cultural environments. He started his artistic career in times when romantical ideals were still intense, but at the same time the voices of the new generation were getting louder and louder. Such a characteristical duality of outlook has helped Sowinski in creating a play Na Ukrainie (1873), in which he has shown all social stratum of the Ukraine (baronage, young democratical Polish nobles, Ukrainian intellectuals, the representatives of the Russian authorities) and their participation in January uprising in the Ukraine. The above-mentioned play is a testimony of a new stage in evolution of social and national relations on the former Polish borderland. It visualizes the annihilation of patriarchal noble order, a split of the imaginary idyllic Polish-Ukrainian community created by the first Polish romanticists of the „Ukrainian school”, a change of the Polish national spirit formation. It also shows the germs of the Ukrainian nation, which was built on their own land by means of other dominant nations. The created vision is both tragic and realistic.
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The article outlines the issue of genre-transformation of tragedy in 19th-century Polish drama. The fundamental question is tragedy’s potential after liberation from the most important structural categories of the genre: the three unities, catharsis and anagnorisis. The discussion on the 19th-century patterns of tragedy, derived from contemporary theory, criticism, and theatrical production, are based on research by Marek Dybizbański, who presented an interesting analysis of the problem, which was an important indicator of contemporary literary thought, in his study called Tragedia polska drugiej połowy XIX wieku - wzorce i odstępstwa [The Polish Tragic Drama in Late 19th Century - Patterns and Divergence]. The issues discussed were: disproportion between expectations and effects, indicated by repertoires and contemporary debate on drama, lack of standard productions of tragedy, matched by great surplus of texts that tried to set the standard, and by programmatic declarations on how to do it. The author, following Dybizbański’s discussion, focuses on the question why the 19th century in Poland was, for tragedy, a lost time.
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The article presents literary image of queen Bona appearing in Polish nineteenth and twentieth century drama and makes an attempt at explaining the reasons for painting such an image. The action of the majority of plays discussed (written in the nineteenth- and the beginning of the twentieth century) was inspired by the stormy course of marriage between Sigismund Augustus and Barbara Radziwiłł while Bona, as a character depicted in dark colours, was opposed to excessively idealised Barbara. The queen from the Sforza family was shown as a woman blinded by hatred, power-thirsty, a cunning and unscrupulous plotter, pitiless poisoner, foreigner acting against the interests of Poles and implementing the controversial teaching of her countryman Machiavelli. The negative and historically false image became blurred with the passage of years to change radically as result of a more critical attitude to Barbara in the literary works written after the Second World War. From a bad monarch wishing Poland ill, Bona turned to a wise ruler and far-sighted politician defending the interest of her second homeland. The article discusses separately radically differing images of queen Bona outlined in two dramas set in Bari and not inspired by Sigismund Augustus’ marriage. Additionally the stage history of one of the dramas is presented.
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W artykule omówiono literacki wizerunek królowej Bony w polskich dramatach dziewiętnasto- i dwudziestowiecznych oraz podjęto próbę zrozumienia jego genezy. Akcja większości omawianych utworów, napisanych w XIX i na początku XX wieku, zainspirowana jest burzliwymi losami małżeństwa Zygmunta Augusta z Barbarą Radziwiłłówną, a postać Bony, odmalowana w ciemnych barwach, przeciwstawiona jest nadmiernie wyidealizowanej postaci Barbary. Królową z rodu Sforzów ukazano jako kobietę zaślepioną nienawiścią i żądną władzy, sprytną i pozbawioną skrupułów intrygantkę, bezlitosną trucicielkę, a także cudzoziemkę, która działa na szkodę Polaków i wprowadza w życie kontrowersyjne nauki swojego rodaka Machiavellego. Ten negatywny wizerunek, niezgodny z rzeczywistością historyczną, z biegiem lat coraz bardziej traci na wyrazistości, by zmienić się radykalnie w utworach powstałych po drugiej wojnie światowej za sprawą bardziej krytycznego ukazania Barbary. Ze złej i wrogiej Polsce monarchini Bona staje się mądrą władczynią i dalekowzrocznym politykiem, broniącym interesów przybranej ojczyzny. W dalszej części artykułu omówiono skrajnie różny sposób przedstawienia królowej Bony w dwóch dramatach rozgrywających się w Bari i niezainspirowanych małżeństwem Zygmunta Augusta. Dodatkowo ukazano dzieje sceniczne jednego z tych utworów.
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