Wokół dramaturgicznego debiutu Felicjana Faleńskiego
The Debut Play by Felicjan Faleński

Summary/Abstract: Felicjan Faleński’s unpublished, first completed drama, Smutne dzieje powstania w Dalekarlii [The Sad Story of the Uprising in Dalecarlia] from 1867, corresponds to Victor Hugo’s program, whereby a work of dramatic art should be “the past revived for the present”. Written with a fresh memory of the January Uprising of 1863, Faleński’s text tells about the rebellion of the Swedes against Danish domination in the union of Scandinavian states established by the Kalmar Union at the end of the 14th century. The play depicts the abuses of the Danes and King Eric of Pomerania, the rebellion of Swedish nobility and the popular masses led by a simple miner, the overthrow of the king, the betrayal of one of the feudal lords, the coup d’état, and the assassination. The action is arranged according to the historical mechanisms known from Shakespeare’s chronicles; in presenting the monarch’s fate, Faleński adds the Calderonian element of the rule of divine providence over the world of earthly history.

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