„Zjadłem dobrą kolację w niezmiernym weselu i wszystkie nasze strachy przeminęły”: jedzenie, picie i towarzystwo jako filozofia eskapizmu w dzienniku Samuela Pepysa

The Diary of Samuel Pepys offers not only a firsthand account of the political and social life in the 17th-century England, but also a profound insight into the culinary habits of the diarist and his contemporaries. In circumstances of grief or jeopardy, Pepys appears to be searching for ways to obliterate and shun the peril by turning to his favourite pleasure which is food and drink enjoyed in a good company. The author clearly treats the activity as a form of escapism and a social emollient which mitigates feuds and conquers fears. The paper examines Pepys’s life philosophy focusing on those aspects of the Diary where eating and drinking appear as the main sources of the author’s merriness and a technique which helps to overcome the hardships and adversities of everyday life.Dziennik Samuela Pepysa oferuje nie tylko relacje świadka politycznych i społecznych wydarzeń w siedemnastowiecznej Anglii, ale również cenny wgląd w kulinarne nawyki londyńczyków. W sytuacji zagrożenia życia lub w momentach smutku i żalu Pepys szuka sposobów na pocieszenie i zapomnienie, zwracając się często w stronę swojej ulubionej przyjemności: jedzenia i picia w towarzystwie przyjaciół i bliskich. Artykuł jest próbą analizy tych wątków dziennika Samuela Pepysa, w których autor traktuje tę aktywność jako formę eskapizmu w czasach zarazy i wielkiego pożaru w Londynie w roku 1666 oraz jako czynnik łagodzący społeczne napięcia, lęki i niepokoje

Oblivion and vengeance: Charles II Stuart’s policy towards the republicans at the Restoration of 1660

The Restoration of Charles II Stuart in 1660 was reckoned in post-revolutionary England both in terms of a long-awaited relief and an inevitable menace. The return of the exiled prince, whose father’s disgraceful decapitation in the name of law eleven years earlier marked the end of the British monarchy, must have been looked forward to by those who expected rewards for their loyalty, inflexibility and royal affiliation in the turbulent times of the Interregnum. It must have been, however, feared by those who directly contributed to issuing the death warrant on the legally ruling king and to violating the irrefutable divine right of kings. Even though Charles II’s mercy was widely known, hardly anyone expected that the restored monarch’s inborn mildness would win over his well-grounded will to revenge his father’s death and the collapse of the British monarchy. It seems that Charles II was not exceptionally vindictive and was eager to show mercy and oblivion understood as an act of amnesty to those who sided with Cromwell and Parliament but did not contribute directly to the executioner raising his axe over the royal neck. On the other hand, the country’s unstable situation and the King’s newly-built reputation required some firm-handed actions taken by the sovereign in order to prevent further rebellions or plots in the future, and to strengthen the position of the monarchy so shattered by the Civil War and the [email protected]ł Kaptur completed his PhD in English literature at the Pedagogical University of Kraków and is currently a lecturer in the Institute of Modern Languages at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. His major academic interests are focused on the history of the House of Stuarts and its depiction in political literature of the Augustan Age and the Age of Reason. He is the author of numerous publications concerning John Dryden’s political literature, Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth, utopian and dystopian literature and academic didactics.Jan Kochanowski University, KielceDryden, John. 1959. The Poems of John Dryden. London: Oxford University Press.Evelyn, John. 2006. The Diary of John Evelyn. London: Everyman’s Library.Fraser, Antonia. 2002. King Charles II. London: Phoenix Press.Garrison, James. D. 1975. Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.Hill, C.P. 1988. Who’s Who in Stuart Britain. London: Shepheard-Walwyn.Hutton, Ronald. 1989. Charles II Oxford: Clarendon Press.Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 2009. The History of Rebellion. New York: Oxford University Press.Pepys, Samuel. 2003. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. New York: The Modern Library.37-4514 (3/2016)374

Open charm measurements in NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS

The measurements of open charm production was proposed as an important tool to investigate the properties of the hot and dense matter formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions as well as to provide the means for model independent interpretation of the existing data on J/ψ suppression. Recently, the experimental setup of the NA61/SHINE experiment was supplemented with a Vertex Detector which was motivated by the importance and the possibility of the first direct measurements of open charm meson production in heavy ion collisions at SPS energies. First test data taken in December 2016 on Pb+Pb collisions at 150A GeV/c allowed to validate the general concept of D0 meson detection via its D0 → π+ + K− decay channel and delivered a first indication of open charm production. The physics motivation of open charm measurements at SPS energies, pilot results on open charm production, and finally, the future plans of open charm measurements in the NA61/SHINE experiment after LS2 are presented

Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in inelastic p + p interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Results on two-particle ΔηΔϕ correlations in inelastic p + p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c are presented. The measurements were performed using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The data show structures which can be attributed mainly to effects of resonance decays, momentum conservation, and quantum statistics. The results are compared with the Epos and UrQMD models.ISSN:1434-6044ISSN:1434-605

A Stingless Bee: the Glorious Revolution in John Dryden’s Translations of Virgil

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was an unprecedented event in the history of England which led to the dethronement of King James II and the coronation of a Dutch Protestant, William of Orange, and his wife Mary, James’s daughter, as new monarchs. Because the deposition of a Catholic King was conducted with general public consent, writers of that period did not consider the event worth commenting on, and hence there was a tangible air of silence and passivity around the Glorious Revolution. John Dryden, a convert Catholic, lost his title of Poet Laureate as a result of the revolution but did not entirely retire from writing. He turned to playwriting and translating Virgil, Juvenal and other classics, not only to make a living but also to be able to convey implicit messages to the new king and his reign. The aim of the present article is to analyse Dryden’s allusions towards the political circumstances of post-revolutionary England, hidden between the lines of his translations of Virgil, against the background of the literary passivity in that period as one of the reasons which made Dryden decide to make political comments in an implicit and disguised manner

Rethinking inspirations for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : a new look at the case of the Silesian gravediggers' scandal of 1606

The article is an attempt to re-examine two theories concerning the possible inspirations for Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein. The paper first evokes the most popular theory conceived by Radu Florescu whose endeavour to investigate the case of Frankestein's sources has been widely acclaimed. It is then juxtaposed with another theory which still has not been profoundly examined and yet seems worth analysing. It refers to the idea publicised by a Polish researcher in the 80s and 90s who implied that the title and the content of Shelley's novel could have been inspired by the events which took place in today's Polish town of Ząbkowice Śląskie. The present paper scrutinizes and discusses the story of the Silesian gravediggers' scandal which broke out in 1606 as a potential impulse which might have triggered the writing of Frankenstein

“This sceptred isle”. Reflections on Shakespeare and Brexit

During the Brexit campaign, both those who opted for Britain leaving the EU and those who wanted to remain in the structures of the Union referred to William Shakespeare to support the rightness of their preference. The question of how Shakespeare would have voted was raised by numerous journalists, writers and politicians who either tried to present Shakespeare as a national bard promoting British isolationism or a staunch adherent of England being an integral part of the European continent. The paper scrutinizes some aspects of Shakespeare’s plays which indicate the writer’s attitude towards the relations between England and Europe.W czasie kampanii brexitowej, zarówno ci, którzy opowiadali się za wyjściem Zjednoczonego Królestwa ze struktur Unii Europejskiej, jak i ci którzy chcieli w nich pozostać odwoływali się do twórczości Williama Szekspira, aby wesprzeć swoje racje. Pytanie „jak głosowałby Szekspir” podnoszone było przez licznych dziennikarzy, naukowców i polityków, którzy starali się przedstawić Szekspira albo jako narodowego barda promującego brytyjski izolacjonizm, albo jako zagorzałego zwolennika Anglii będącej integralną częścią kontynentu europejskiego. Niniejszy artykuł jest próbą analizy wybranych aspektów twórczości Williama Szekspira, które mogłyby wskazywać na stosunek dramaturga do relacji pomiędzy Anglią a Europą