A review of: Piotr Pirecki, Polska komedia plebejska XVI i XVII wieku. Zarys monograficzny. Łódź 2008 Cover Image

Rec.: Piotr Pirecki, Polska komedia plebejska XVI i XVII wieku. Zarys monograficzny. Łódź 2008
A review of: Piotr Pirecki, Polska komedia plebejska XVI i XVII wieku. Zarys monograficzny. Łódź 2008

Author(s): Jan Okoń
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Piotr Pirecki; Polish "plebeian" comedy

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses Piotr Pirecki’s book on Polish 16th and 17th c. "plebeian" comedy, the title of which is being quite a misnomer. The comedies in question were created by anonymous Kraków Academy alumni – thus cultivated humanists and writers, who however referred to true plebeian literature and its medieval European tradition (cf. "Carmina Burana," goliards’-vagants’ poetry or "Till Eullenspiegel").

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 215-224
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish