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      Jesuit theatre, Baroque theatreJacobus PontanusHistory of Jesuit EducationJesuit Theater
Das Jesuitentheater als einen Gattungs- bzw. Stilbegriff zu verstehen und zu beschreiben ist aufgrund der vielfältigen und unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen nicht möglich. Sowenig es als Gattungs- bzw. Stilbegriff beschreibbar ist,... more
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      Jesuit historyMedieval Theater and PerformanceDrama and TheaterTheater History
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      Baroque Art and LiteratureEarly Modern CatholicismClaudio MonteverdiHistory of Biblical Interpretation (Theology)
The study deals with Jesuit school dramas from Bohemian lands, whose protagonist is St . Francis Xavier . Four complete texts and thirteen plays preserved only in form of synopsis are analysed primarily from the point of view of most... more
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      Early Modern LiteratureNeolatin LiteratureJesuit theatre, Baroque theatreNeolatin drama
This article briefly investigates how Jesuit performances brought a substantial contribution to the development of the theatrical art during the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. The discussion below does not intend to be... more
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      Theatre StudiesPerformance StudiesJesuit educationTheatre Arts
The origins of the Jesuit school theatre trace back to the second half of the 16th century, but its development in Poland only occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries. The idea of the Jesuit school theatre was taken from the Johannes... more
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      Polish LiteratureJesuit educationOld Polish literatureJesuit theatre, Baroque theatre
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      Early Modern theatre studiesEarly Modern DramaJesuit DramaNeolatin Literature
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      Neo-latin literatureNeo-Latin PoetryNeolatin LiteratureJesuit school drama in the 18th century
In the late 16th Century Jacobus Pontanus wrote a comedy by the title Stratocles sive bellum (Stratocles or War). Pontanus (1542-1626) taught Rhetoric and Humanities at the Jesuit university of Dillingen (Bavaria) and at the Jesuit school... more
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      Just War TheoryCivil-military relationsJesuit theatre, Baroque theatreJacobus Pontanus
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      Baroque Art and LiteratureIntellectual History of the Baroque PeriodMiguel de CervantesCervantes