Selected Drama and Verse |
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Author:
| Radziwillowa, Franciszka Urszula |
Editor:
| Zwierzynska-Coldicott, Aldona Corness, Patrick John Judkowiak, Barbara |
Translator:
| Corness, Patrick John |
Series title: | The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-86698-532-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
Publisher: | Iter Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $75.95 |
Book Description:
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This edition presents, for the first time in English, a selection from the repertoire of the first Polish woman dramatist, Princess Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705-1753), with a historical-biographical Introduction incorporating interpretations of her works. Radziwiłłowa's plays treated complex issues concerning intimate relationships. In her poetry she explored new, very personal, means of expression for intimate declarations, in a form of language...
More DescriptionThis edition presents, for the first time in English, a selection from the repertoire of the first Polish woman dramatist, Princess Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705-1753), with a historical-biographical Introduction incorporating interpretations of her works. Radziwiłłowa's plays treated complex issues concerning intimate relationships. In her poetry she explored new, very personal, means of expression for intimate declarations, in a form of language capable of conveying the emotional distress that could not find expression under existing conventions.