Mikołaj Zebrzydowski jako nauczyciel buntów w dramacie Ludwika Orpiszewskiego
Mikołaj Zebrzydowski as a master of rebellions in Ludwik Orpiszewski’s drama

Summary/Abstract: The creation of a drama entitled Mikołaj Zebrzydowski was the result of Ludwik Orpiszewski’s “with penchant for national history”. In connection with the disputes in the 1850s about the legitimacy of the November Uprising and about the organization of another uprising for national liberation, the former insurgent used a person named Mikołaj Zebrzydowski (usually depicted in dark colors by contemporaneous historians) to express his view on the next and final uprising. Orpiszewski presented Zebrzydowski not so much as the “cause” of the fall of the Republic of Poland, but as the first rebel whose actions were determined by national pride, referred to by the playwright as “our main sin”. The author of the article first justifies the novelty of Orpiszewski’s work by comparing it with selected contemporaneous historical dramas by Polish authors. Next, he discusses Orpiszewski’s interpretation of the character of Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, and in conclusion presents a metacommentary on the contemporary situation of Ludwik Orp

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