VERAHISTORIA OF"HISTORYJA O CHWALEBNYM ZMARTWYCHWSTANIU PAŃSKIM" ("THE HISTORY OF THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD") BYMIKOŁAJ OF WILKOWIECKO

The paper analyses the mode in which Mikolaj of Wilkowiecko, the author of Historyja o chwalebnym Zmartwychwstaniu Panskim (The History of the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord), "constructs" the in- disputable "truth" of the piece, in that he refers to the Latin term historia and distances from theatre (does not define his piece in the categories of stage performance). The title of the work reflects a ten- dency, characteristic of Christianity, to reject theatre while concentrating the believers' attention on liturgical and paraliturgical phenomena. Under the influence of Protestant criticism, the last aspect exhorted Mikolaj to eliminate the scenes satiated with secularity.