Iluzja, wizje i maskarada w rozrywkach polskich oświeconych na przykładzie komedioopery Stanisława Kostki Potockiego i pamiętnika Anny Potockiej

• Authors: Lisicka Małgorzata

Title variants

EN

An Illusion, Visions, and a Masquerade in the Entertainments of Polish People of the Enlightenment on the Example of Comic Opera by Stanisław Kostka Potocki and Anna Potocki’s Diary

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the use of illusion and vision in the literature and culture of the Enlightenment on the example of the play "Umarły żyjący, czyli Diabeł Włoski" by Stanisław Kostka Potocki, and the first volume of the "Diary" by Anna Potocka from Tyszkiewicz family. It analyses special effects used in the theatre and described in these texts, as well as their motives present in the character of an astrologer and illuminatus inspired by the person of Alessandro Cagliostro. The phenomena of the masquerade and mystification shown here were a popular entertainment of the eighteenth-century aristocracy, and a tool serving fraudsters to reach the target, as well as a weapon used by muckrakes.

Keywords

PL

Stanisław Kostka Potocki; Anna Potocka; maskarada; iluzja; Alessandro Cagliostro

EN

Stanisław Kostka Potocki; Anna Potocka; masquerade; illusion; Alessandro Cagliostro

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 11-28

Contributors

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Lisicka Małgorzata

• Uniwersytet Warszawski