Zapolska’s Women: Three Plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man, and Miss Maliczewska by Gabriela Zapolska edited and translated by Teresa Murjas Intellect Books, October 2009
Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) was one of the foremost
modernist Polish playwrights. Zapolska’s Women features three of her
performance texts that focus on the economic and social pressures faced by
women in partitioned Poland
at the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to the plays, Zapolska’s
Women provides a detailed biography of Zapolska, relating her life story to
the themes of each play; an analysis of her significance within Polish and
European literary and theatrical traditions; and background on the social
and historical conditions within Poland during the time the plays
were written and originally performed. This informative collection of
groundbreaking plays will introduce an English-speaking audience to Zapolska’s
important work.
