„Mit cały ukształcić”, czyli o Wandzie

Abstract

Krasiński’s Wanda (Wonda) is traditionally situated nearby Słowacki’s dramas from fabulous recorded history – Balladyna and Lilla Weneda. Recently the work has been confronted with that context as a realistic counterpart of Słowacki’s ‘fabulous’ vision. Though within the drama structure the mythopoeic gestures can be distinguished (even using the tools of structural anthropology) and the projection of the spectacle written both within the drama lines and the poet’s sketches of impressions from the Vienna theatre during Wanda’s stirring, mostly from Schiller’s dramas performances, can lead towards the mystic experience, which takes the human to the firmament. And if the drama containing the dragon and spirit within its depicted world makes the impression of a realistic work, Krasiński – according to his own words – succeeded in ‘shaping the whole myth’.