Abstract
Published in 1904, Jolanta: A Dramatic Poet in One Act by Edward Leszczynski is – like
Atlantyda, one of his later dramas – a celebration of love, vitality, and life. Both works are saturated
with the symbolic profusion of the Pre-Raphaelites. In Jolanta the glowing spiritual and symbols, inspired by the paintings of William Holman Hunt, are used to communicate the horror
of a solar apocalypse punctuating a deadlocked argument. An eschatological reading of the drama,
proposed in this article, puts its apocalyptic ending in a new perspective.
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