Leszka Dunina Borkowskiego dyskurs o wolności w tragedii „Arnalda de Rocas, czyli zdobycie Nikozji”
Leszek Dunin Borkowski’s discourse about freedom in tragedy “Arnalda de Rocas, or getting Nicosia”

Summary/Abstract: The specific censorship determines only apparently the true end of the PolishEnlightenment, which was revealed very clearly especially in the areas of Galicia. TheVienna government aspired by all means to transform ‘hereditary countries’ together intoa whole. Therefore, literature often started to use historical costume. The tragedy entitled‘Arnaldo de Rocas: or, getting Nicosia. The tragedy in five acts, a poem originally written inPolish in 1828 by Leszek Borkowski’ is the outcome of those practices, remaining almosttwo hundred years in the manuscript. This unknown play, referring to its idea of ‘TheGrecian Envoys’, is a perfect example of long-lasting classical aesthetics, which thanks tosetting the action in the historically distant times, smuggles current patriotic content ina veiled way.

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