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Two Polish versions of Molière’s George Dandin, ou le mari confondu (1668), a mix of farce and the comedy of manners, appeared in print in the Enlightenment period: Mąż zawstydzony (Durfour: Warsaw, 1779) and Mąż oszukany (Durfour: Warsaw, 1780). The article juxtaposes both these texts and compares them with the original and with translation and adaptation strategies characteristic for Jan Baudouin...
The title of the article signals a paradoxical, two-fold existence of Polonised comedies, which, though existing, usually go unnoticed, especially that most of them are second-rate. I propose to draw consequences from the fact of this double existence and to treat these texts as a product of multi-authorial and multi-generational type of creation of pragmatic character, belonging rather to theatre...
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