Piotr Baryka (1600–1675) was a seventeenth-century Polish soldier and writer. He is listed as one of the authors present at the coronation of
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History
From 1625 to 1629 he took part in military expeditions for Hetman
Stanislaw Koniecpolski Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
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. Then he settled at the court of
Sieradz
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as a wealthy citizen (perhaps he was Albert Lubienski-Makovetski Sieradzki). Between 1629 and 1633,
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, and finally printed in 1637.
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'' — 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.
References
;Attribution
*''This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article on the Swedish Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there in the'
History''section.''
External links
*
Z chłopa król' at the Archive.org website
1600 births
1675 deaths
17th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights
Polish male dramatists and playwrights
17th-century male writers
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