Misterium na patyku, czyli „święta zabawa” Białoszewskiego
Mystery Play on a Stick: Białoszewski’s “Holy Play”

Summary/Abstract: The article explores Miron Białoszewski’s religious and ritual imagination, as manifestedin his early verse drama about Saint Rosalia, whose newly shaped figure serves as thepoet’s “alter ego.” The author demonstrates how the neo-avant-garde Rozalie, createdfor puppet theater and closely related to Ballady rzeszowskie (Rzeszów Ballads) andanticipating Osmędeusze from the Teatr na Tarczyńskiej theater, refers to the traditionof the mystery play, evokes the conventions of the Christmas nativity scene, drawson medieval hagiography sources, aligns itself with the tradition of Polish church song,and incorporates patterns from the folk art of the Subcarpathian region.

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