This masters’ treatise is named Baroque literature of Lithuania. It presents panorama of baroque literature in Lithuania in limits of present country. To reach this goal it analyses the literature from the three positions. Firstly, studies the political and historical backgrounds of the state from the early 16th century till the middle of 18th century. Secondly, shows the silhouettes and productions of the most famous and less known, or already forgotten writers, who wrote their compositions in Polish, Lithuanian and Latin languages. Thirdly, presents the most popular kinds of literature of this age. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter shows general background of baroque epoch development in West Europe. Explains the mining of baroque term and presents the historical and social circumstances of development of the stile in Lithuania. The development of literature of the trend appears on the last part of the chapter, which briefly describes the activity of Vilnius University – the place where was created baroque literature of Lithuania. The second chapter was divided for three parts with regard to languages’ situation of the country and includes by two representatives of everyone of it. Latin language represents M.K. Sarbiewski and Z. Lauksmin, Polish language – P. Skarga and Z. Morsztyn, Lithuanian language – M. Daukša and K. Širvydas. The last part of the chapter shows the first women in literature, who’s activity coincidenced with the baroque... [to full text]