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Irish Drama in Poland

Staging and Reception, 1900-2000

Barry Keane

Intellect Books, 2016

Irish Drama in Poland is the first book to broadly assess Irish drama’s impact on both Poland’s theatrical world and its cultural and literary heritage in the twentieth century. With a wide-ranging analysis—from Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, and Behan, to Wilde, Shaw, and Beckett—this engaging study explores the translation, production, and reception of Irish plays in Poland. Barry Keane presents readers with the historical and literary context for each production, allowing readers to understand the many ways Irish theater has informed Poland’s theatrical and literary heritage. Including a foreword by translation scholar Michael Cronin, Irish Drama in Poland drives home the importance of exploring intercultural contexts, allowing readers a more informed understanding of European culture and identity.
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Orphan Girl

A Lament on a Life's Misfortunes

Anna Stanislawska

Iter Press, 2026

A long-lost seventeenth-century poetic text exemplifying women's writing in the early modern period.

Written in 1685, Orphan Girl traces the life of the Polish noblewoman Anna Stanisławska (1651–1700) as she writes candidly and unsparingly about the course of her life, from her infancy to the time of her second widowhood, and ultimately her withdrawal from a world of which she no longer wants any part. Stanisławska was an incomparable memoirist, revealing the tumultuous course of her three marriages. Described as one of the nine female Polish writers you need to read before you die, she is a writer whose stridency and directness of authorial voice would not be matched until modern times.

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Orphan Girl

A Transaction, or an Account of the Entire Life of an Orphan Girl by way of Plaintful Threnodies in the Year 1685. The Aesop Episode

Anna Stanislawska

Iter Press, 2016

Writing years after terrible events which colored her life forever, Anna Stanislawska (1651-1701) meticulously reconstructed in an epic poem the episode of her forced marriage to the deviant son of the Castellan of Kraków. He was deemed to be so ugly that Stanislawska called her new husband Aesop, who was said to have been one of the ugliest men in Antiquity.

Barry Keane's idiomatic and inventive verse translation brings to life this half-forgotten poetic account of a remarkable tale of triumph in the face of overwhelming oppression and allows Anna Stanislawska to take her place among the women poets of early modern Europe.
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Orphan Girl

The Olesnicki Episode: One Body with Two Souls Entwined: An Epic Tale of Married Love in Seventeenth-Century Poland

Anna Stanislawska

Iter Press, 2021

A page-turner featuring one of literature’s earliest female protagonists.

Written in 1685, Transaction or the Description of the Entire Life of an Orphan by Way of Plaintful Threnodies, often referred to as Orphan Girl, is a valuable, long-lost, seventeenth-century poetic text that documents women’s writing in the early modern period. In this autobiographical account, Anna Stanislawska speaks confessionally and unsparingly about her life, from her infancy to her widowhood and withdrawal from the world. Stanislawska was an incomparable memoirist, revealing the depths of her private life in a manner not to be matched until modern times. One Body with Two Souls Entwined brings together this spirited poetic account with an in-depth introductory and literary commentary by Barry Keane. Together the book offers a remarkable piece of scholarly, translational, and dramaturgical work and puts it in context amid the backdrop of Polish history. 
 
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