Wyspiański Stanisław, Wyzwolenie [first edition].

Wyspiański Stanisław, Wyzwolenie, by the author, Cracow 1903, 1st edition, p. 194, dimensions 14 x 20.5 cm. Ex libris on title page and on frontispiece. Half cloth binding, rubbing of binding.

First printing of one of S. Wyspiański's most famous works. "The next after The Wedding, and the last in the work of dram. Wyspiański's next after The Wedding, and the last in his dramatic output. Poland, which was realized by Wyspiański, framed in an innovative form, as a "theater within a theater" with exposure of the "naked stage". On the back of the title page of the author's edition there is a hint: "The thing was written in 1902, it takes place on the stage of the Cracow theater." On this stage - uncovered without decoration - enters Konrad, whose name and character itself was derived by the playwright from Mickiewicz (...) A drama written in verse and prose (...) More interesting stagings: in wil. Reduta 1925 by J. Osterwa and in Krakow by B. Dabrowski 1957, K. Swinarski 1974, in Warsaw by W Horzyca 1958." [Literatura Polska XX wieku. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny vol. 2, Warsaw 2003].