Name Franciszka Radziwillowa | Role Dramatist | |
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Died May 23, 1753, Navahrudak, Belarus Spouse Michal Kazimierz "Rybenko" Radziwill (m. 1725) Parents Janusz Antoni Wisniowiecki Children Karol Stanislaw "Panie Kochanku" Radziwill, Katarzyna Karolina Radziwill Books Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa: Selected Drama and Verse Similar People Michal Kazimierz "Rybenko, Karol Stanislaw "Panie Ko, Waclaw Rzewuski, Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski | ||
Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa (13 February 1705 - 23 May 1753) was a Polish-Lithuanian noblewoman, dramatist, writer and the first Polish woman playwright.
Born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the noble family of Janusz Antoni Wisniowiecki, the Castellan of Krakow and married to the grand hetman Michal Kazimierz "Rybenko" Radziwill, she received a thorough education. She wrote numerous plays (at least 16) for her court theatre in Nieswiez. Many subjects and characters for her plays were taken from medieval dramas, ancient mythology, Arab and Persian humoresques and folklore.
Works of Urszula Franciszka Radziwill are an example of Eighteenth–century Polish Baroque culture as it transformed from medieval spectacles to the theatre of the new age.