Granice romantyzmu w dziejach polskiej komedii według dziewiętnastowiecznej krytyki krajowej
The Time Frames of Romanticism in the History of Polish Comedy According to the 19th-century Polish Criticism

Summary/Abstract: The notions of both a ‘romantic comedy’ and ‘Romanticism in comedy’ were used in the 19th-century Polish literary and theatre criticism, which at that point had already outlined some accomplishments of Romanticism, as a means of comparative analysis as well as historical and literary periodisation. Curiously enough, such issues as semantic contents and the time frames defining the phenomenon, were not specified or better still problematized at that time. This article attempts to reconstruct the unexpressed insights into the meanings and time frames and as a result leads towards a model stretching chronologically from ‘cosmopolitanism’, which was at that time attributed to the 18th-century classicistic comedy, allegedly eradicated by Aleksander Fredro as late as at the beginning of the 1930s, and tendentiousness, considered to be one of the traits of modern comedy of the second half of the 19th century, and detected by critics as early as in the first half of the 1940s in Józef Korzeniowski’s comedies.

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