
Michał Kuran
Address: Lodz, Poland
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The article aims to show the conflict that arises between the expectations of people who crave sleep and those who want to enjoy night entertainment. The activities of night guards that operated in cities serve to reconcile these interests. Stanisław Grochowski outlines such a situation in the poem The Complaint of Night Sleep. The article presents the rhetorical structure of the work, as well as the social situation of Warsaw at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries: it describes the night customs of Varsovians and newcomers, as well as the activities of the city guards. The work includes a querel of Sleep and a praise of King Sigismund III Vasa, who restores order to the city.
The article aims to show the conflict that arises between the expectations of people who crave sleep and those who want to enjoy night entertainment. The activities of night guards that operated in cities serve to reconcile these interests. Stanisław Grochowski outlines such a situation in the poem The Complaint of Night Sleep. The article presents the rhetorical structure of the work, as well as the social situation of Warsaw at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries: it describes the night customs of Varsovians and newcomers, as well as the activities of the city guards. The work includes a querel of Sleep and a praise of King Sigismund III Vasa, who restores order to the city.