Abstract
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska is known today almost exclusively as a great Polish lyric poet. However, during the interwar period she was one of the most frequently staged playwrights, with access to a wide popular audience. She was also keenly aware of the various dramatic experiments occurring around her and actually collaborated on a play with Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. This article contends that popular plays, such as those of Jasnorzewska, fulfilled an important role in educating Polish audiences, preparing them to deal with truly avant-garde works several decades later. The mixture of traditional and non-traditional elements, with special focus on the grotesque, in Jasnorzewska’s play Baba-Dziwo is analyzed to show how the playwright simultaneously forces her audience to face experimental devices but guarantees their continued interest by exploiting also familiar elements.
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