The Revenge (Fredro play)
| The Revenge | |
|---|---|
| First edition, 1838 | |
| Written by | Aleksander Fredro | 
| Date premiered | 1834 | 
| Place premiered | Lviv | 
| Original language | Polish | 
| Genre | comedy | 
| Setting | Odrzykoń, Poland | 
The Revenge (Polish: Zemsta) is a Polish comedy by Aleksander Fredro, a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions. Zemsta belongs to the canon of Polish literature. It is a play in four acts, written in the octosyllabic verse mostly in the vernacular of Lesser Poland (Małopolska); filled with proverbs and paraphrased allusions.