Piotr Baryka (1600â€"1675) was a seventeenth-century Polish soldier
and writer, most probably of burgher origin, of whom very little is
known. He is listed as one of the authors present at the coronation of
Władysław IV.From 1625 to 1629 he took part in military expeditions
for Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski. Then he settled at the court of
Sieradz as a wealthy citizen (perhaps he was Albert
Lubienski-Makovetski Sieradzki). Between 1629 and 1633,[1] Baryka
wrote a Carnival comedy about a peasant who was turned into king (Z
chłopa król). It was first staged as it was in 1633,[2] and finally
printed in 1637.[1]Piotr Baryka is one of the few of these playwrights
whose names have come to us. The Peasant King, as its title indicates,
carries a motif made popular in the introduction to Shakespeare's The
Taming of the Shrew â€" the seeming bestowal of noble rank upon a
person of lowly birth. Several examples of this type of comedy have
survived, and they include realistic depictions of all the popular
customs and grotesquely humorous situations that parody in many cases
the lofty themes of the "official" literature.[3]
and writer, most probably of burgher origin, of whom very little is
known. He is listed as one of the authors present at the coronation of
Władysław IV.From 1625 to 1629 he took part in military expeditions
for Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski. Then he settled at the court of
Sieradz as a wealthy citizen (perhaps he was Albert
Lubienski-Makovetski Sieradzki). Between 1629 and 1633,[1] Baryka
wrote a Carnival comedy about a peasant who was turned into king (Z
chłopa król). It was first staged as it was in 1633,[2] and finally
printed in 1637.[1]Piotr Baryka is one of the few of these playwrights
whose names have come to us. The Peasant King, as its title indicates,
carries a motif made popular in the introduction to Shakespeare's The
Taming of the Shrew â€" the seeming bestowal of noble rank upon a
person of lowly birth. Several examples of this type of comedy have
survived, and they include realistic depictions of all the popular
customs and grotesquely humorous situations that parody in many cases
the lofty themes of the "official" literature.[3]
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