Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa

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Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (Belarusian: Францішка Ўршуля Радзівіл or Franciška Uršula Radzivił, February 13, 1705 - May 23, 1753) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble dramatist and writer, first Polish woman playwright.

Born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the szlachta family of Janusz Antoni Wiśniowiecki, the kasztalan of Kraków and married to the grand hetman Michał Kazimier "Rybańka" Radzivił, she got a brilliant domestic education and wrote numerous plays (at least 16) for her court theatre in Nieśwież. Many subjects and characters for her plays were taken from medieval dramas, Ancient mythology, Arab and Persian humoresques and folklore.

Works of Urszula Franciszka Radziwiłł are an example of 18th century Polish Baroque culture in its specific transition form from medieval spectacles to the theatre of the new age.

Works

"Sędzia, od rozumu odsadzony"
"Miłość mistrzyni doskonała"

Celia Hawkesworth, A History of Central European Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0-333-77809-X
Jadwiga Sokolowska and Krystyna Zukowska, Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Poeci polskiego baroku. Warsaw 1965, vol.2;
Judkowiak Barbara, Słowo inscenizowane. O Franciszce Urszuli Radziwiłłowej - poetce

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Persondata
Name	Radziwillowa, Franciszka Urszula
Alternative names
Short description	Polish-Lithuanian noble
Date of birth	February 13, 1705
Place of birth
Date of death	May 23, 1753
Place of death

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Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa

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