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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
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
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
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