Polish dramatist, painter, and poet. He harboured a vision of the theatre as a place
where all the arts might coalesce to produce a grand symbolic event. The November
1830 rising in Poland against Russian rule is the subject of Warszawianka/The Girl
from Warsaw 1898 and Noc listopadowa/November Night 1904. He wrote the highly
original drama Wesele/The Wedding in 1901.
Wyspianski’s poetic drama continues in many ways the Polish Romantic drama of
Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Slowacki, but its formal structure links it with
Symbolism.