Kordian
Juliusz Słowacki1834

S?owacki began work on Kordian about early 1833, completing it in late November that year, while he was in Switzerland.[5] It was published next year in Paris,[5] anonymously,[4] leading to speculation that it might have been written by the foremost Polish poet, Adam Mickiewicz. Still, it received little positive notice in the first years after its publication.[5] It premiered in 1889 in Austrian-held Kraków, at the theatre now named for S?owacki.[4][5][6] It had to wait until 1916 for its first performance in Russian-held Warsaw.[4] Another notable production occurred in 1956 under Erwin Axer.[7] Other leading directors who have staged Kordian include Leon Schiller (in the 1930s) and Jerzy Grotowski (1962).[8] The play has become a classic of Polish theatre repertory.[9] Though Kordian's title and some of S?owacki's letters indicate that he had planned to write, and may actually have written drafts of, second and third parts, they were never published and, if written, were either destroyed or remain lost.

Titre original : Kordian (1834)