Sen, Słowacki, Szekspir i inni
Dreams, Słowacki, Shakespeare and Others

Author(s): Michał Kuziak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: dreams; illusion; intertextual plays; Witold Gombrowicz; Juliusz Słowacki; Shakespeare; Calderon
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the problem of dreams and the related cognitive, ontological and linguistic disorientation which leads to the experience of illusion. The article makes use of several highly intertextual plays including "Ślub" [The Wedding] by Witold Gombrowicz, "Balladyna" [Balladine], "Sen srebrny Salomei" [Salome’s Silver Dream] and "Samuel Zborowski" by Słowacki, and Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and "Calderon’s Life is a Dream". These musings on 19th- and 20th-century literary texts invite reflection on the problem of the illusory nature of existence in post-modern thinking. Special attention is drawn to the diverse depictions of illusion in the plays and to their potential meanings.

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