Green game. Unknown comedy by Emil Zegadłowicz and Stefan Essmanowski Cover Image

Nieznana komedia Emila Zegadłowicza i Stefana Essmanowskiego Gra w zielone (1933)
Green game. Unknown comedy by Emil Zegadłowicz and Stefan Essmanowski

Author(s): Mirosław Wójcik
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Sociology of Art
Published by: Wadowickie Centrum Kultury
Keywords: Emil Zegadłowicz; Stefan Essmanowski; Polish theater of the twentieth century; comedy; drama of the interwar period; editing;

Summary/Abstract: The content of the article presents the genesis of the creation and publication of an unknown comedy written by Emil Zegadłowicz and Stefan Essmanowski, The Game of Green, or Conscious Fatherhood. Lark in three acts with prologue and epilogue. The detailed information contained in the article indicates the place of this work in the artistic output of both authors, presents the subject matter of the comedy in the context of the plays of the time, and explains the time and circumstances of its creation reconstructed on the basis of biographical sources, the surviving correspondence of the two co-authors and other testimonies. A separate place is given to the characterization of the process of formation of the final editing of the work, a discussion of the surviving transmissions, their linguistic features, the extent of variants and the participation of each co-author in the final redaction of the comedy’s text.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 185-213
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish