Dramat imaginacyjny Wyspiańskiego: O niedrukowanej pracy Ireny Sławińskiej

Abstract

This article presents an unpublished text by Irena Sławińska: Dramat imaginacyjny Stanisława Wyspiańskiego [Stanisław Wyspiański’s Drama of Imagination], probably dating from 1938. It discusses Sławińska’s possible sources of inspiration and her most important research steps in reconstructing the imaginative poetics of Wyspiański’s dramas (Protesilas i Laodamia, Legion, Wesele [The Wedding], Noc listopadowa [November Night], Wyzwolenie [Liberation], Akropolis, Sędziowie [The Judges]). Based on an analysis of Wyspiański’s concept of space, character construction, dialogue, and the function of the choruses and stage directions, Sławińska argues that a constitutive feature of his poetics of imagination was the principle of blurring the border between the world of vision and the real world by interlinking them structurally, while at the same time emphasizing their fundamental separateness. Sławińska also reassesses the chronology of the formation of Wyspiański’s vision of new theater, proposing that it should be dated from 1895. The article indicates the elements of the unpublished text that today may serve as an inspiration for further research on Wyspiański’s work.

Keywords

• stanisław wyspiański
• poetic drama
• theatrical vision in drama
• irena sławińska