title: Witkiewicz: Seven Plays
author: Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz
description: <div>Overflowing with hyper-vivid characters and precipitous actions, these dramas constitute Witkiewicz's "portrait of the artist," offering a panorama of a demented era headed for disaster as well as a cracked mirror reflecting the author's own protean faces. Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; editor, Slavic and East European Performance; editor, Routledge Harwood Polish and East European Theatre Archive; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, and translations of Polish and Russian drama.</div>
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  # So Runs the World
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henryk Sienkiewicz
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  PART FIRST. HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.
  
  
  PART SECOND. SO RUNS THE WORLD
  
  
    
  ZOLA.
  
  
  PART THIRD. WHOSE FAULT?
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
  PART FOURTH. THE VERDICT
  
  
  PART FIFTH. WIN OR LOSE.
  
  
    
  ACT I.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.
  
  
    
  SCENE VIII.
  
  
    
  ACT II.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.
  
  
    
  SCENE VIII.
  
  
    
  ACT III.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.
  
  
    
  SCENE VIII.
  
  
    
  SCENE IX.
  
  
    
  SCENE X.
  
  
    
  SCENE XI.
  
  
    
  SCENE XII.
  
  
    
  SCENE XIII.
  
  
    
  SCENE XIV.
  
  
    
  ACT IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.
  
  
    
  SCENE VIII.
  
  
  