Stanislawa Przybyszewski (1901-35), the illegitimate daughter of the modernist writer Stanislaw
Przybyszewski, became famous in her own right only after her death. Today she is recognized as a major twentieth-century playwright on the basis of her trilogy about the French Revolution, of which The Danton Case and Thermidor are the principal parts.
Boleslaw Taborski, a poet, theatre critic, and translator, is the author of Byron and the Theatre and Polish Plays in English Translations: A Bibliography. His translations also include two works by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Collected Plays and Writings on Theatre and The Jeweler's Shop, and Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary. He lives in London.
Daniel Gerould is Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has published numerous translations of Polish works and with Jadwiga Kosicka is the co-author of A Life of Solitude: Stanislawa Przybyszewska: A Biographical Study with Selected Letters, also published by Northwestern University Press.
