Karol IV jako egzemplum literackie w „Rocznikach" Jana Długosza
Charles IV. as an exemplum in Jan Długosz’s „Annales“

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a piece of work of an excellent director of Polish theatre – Jerzy Jarocki, who was able to connect literature and historiosophy of writers whose plays were shown on a stage. Russian history was an object of interest for Jarocki, and it bloomed just during his studies on Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Several years in Russia helped him to realize a complicated past of the empire and let to know not only theatre events of the country. It was not an accident that he got fascinated with Witkacy‘s works whose involvement in the revolution appeared to be a real breakthrough in the writer‘s life and a source of tragic historiosophy. Jarocki, as the first of many directors, presented works of Sławomir Mrożek who was also interested in an eventful history of Russia. One of the last plays of Mrożek was “Love in the Crimea” which can be interpreted as a historiosophic allegory depicting a history of Russian culture from the end of the Tsarist Age, through Stalinism, to capitalism. The play was one of his last stagings in The National Theatre in Warsaw. The last theatre play was “The Case” based on “Samuel Zborowski” of Juliusz Słowacki. Jarocki updated a romantic drama and build an original, in its style, story about a Polish group madness - with a bard and his visions: with the corps of Samuel Zborowski and a chancellor Jan Zamoyski, Lucifer – a lawyer of the Polish Case, with Jesus Christ and the divine tribunal, the marshal Józef Piłsudski and Smoleńsk Disaster. ―The Case‖ became not only reading of a romantic drama, but also a picture of reality, a picture of what shapes the present.

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