From 1625 to 1629 he took part in military expeditions for Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski.
Then he settled at the court of Sieradz as a wealthy citizen (perhaps he was Albert Lubienski-Makovetski Sieradzki).
Between 1629 and 1633,[1] Baryka wrote a Carnival comedy about a peasant who was turned into king (Z chłopa król).
The Peasant King, as its title indicates, carries a motif made popular in the introduction to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew — the seeming bestowal of noble rank upon a person of lowly birth.
Several examples of this type of comedy have survived, and they include realistic depictions of all the popular customs and grotesquely humorous situations that parody in many cases the lofty themes of the "official" literature.