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Watching the Virtues: Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania(142 Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Watching the Virtues: Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania(142 Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

          
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Jolanta Rzegocka explores the Jesuit theatre of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, showing its role in educating the youth of mostly Catholic and other denominations, and shaping political discourse. Using over 800 playbills, she analyses the diffusion of Anglo-Scottish themes and narratives in Poland-Lithuania through Jesuit theatre as a cultural phenomenon and discusses a hitherto unknown play about Thomas More (1765).

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations A Note on Usage Key Dates Introduction  Jesuit Theatre as a Form of Cultural Mediation  Virtues in Action  The Playbill  The Jesuit Art of Condensation  The Uses of Rhetoric  Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits and Their Interest in ‘Images of Great Men’  Printing the Playbills  Setting the Standard: the Braniewo Printing House  Jesuit Playbills from Vilnius  Playbills: Production, Distribution, Print Run, Costs Part 1: Through the Looking Glass: the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania Viewed through a Jesuit Theatrical Lens 1 Enter the King: Monarchs as Role-Models and Bearers of Christian Virtues  1.1 Medieval Kings in Early Modern Jesuit Drama  1.2 Women in Jesuit Drama  1.3 Royal and Heroic Names in Jesuit Historiography and Drama  1.4 Monarchs as Role-Models in Jesuit Drama  1.5 Ancient Rulers as Bearers of Christian Virtues: the Case of Duke Mieszko  1.6 The Jagiellonians on the Jesuit Stage  1.7 Jesuit Readings of the Life of Saint Casimir Jagiellon 2 The Public Spirit of Jesuit Theatre: the Sejm, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on Stage  2.1 The Public Spirit of Jesuit Theatre  2.2 The Sejm, the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies  2.3 The Senate and the Senators 3 Polish-Lithuanian Noblemen in Jesuit Drama  3.1 Politics on Stage  3.2 Enter the Szlachcic  3.3 Szlachta Ancestors: Champions of Virtue 4 Books and Prize Giving as a Celebration of Knowledge and Virtue  4.1 The Genius of the Noble Family in Jesuit Drama  4.2 The Family Coats of Arms on Stage  4.3 Heraldic Emblems 5 Legality, Law, and the Tribunal on the Jesuit Stage  5.1 Authority in Epitome: St. Stanislaus Play, Lublin 1638  5.2 Grandia monumenta, Lublin 1726  5.3 Conclusion Part 2: Fact and Fiction: English and Scottish-Themed Plays in Polish-Lithuanian Jesuit Drama 6 The Earliest Jesuit Theatre in Poland-Lithuania: Themes and Contexts  6.1 From Local to Universal  6.2 The Earliest Jesuit Theatre in Poland-Lithuania: Themes and Contexts  6.3 Braniewo – the Mission in the North  6.4 Saving the Virtuous: Susanna Play in Braniewo 1569  6.5 Addressing the Waivering in Faith: the Evangelicus fluctuans Play in Braniewo in 1570  6.6 Chastity as Political Virtue: the Earliest English Link 7 English and Scottish Catholics in Poland-Lithuania: Geography and Stage  7.1 English and Scottish Catholics in Poland-Lithuania  7.2 English and Scottish History on Jesuit Stage  7.3 Campion in Kalisz  7.4 The Two Traditions of English Theatre in Poland-Lithuania  7.5 Poznań: Franciscus Valsingamius 1619  7.6 English History as Shrovetide Entertainment: the War of the Roses  7.7 St Alban Play Vicarius Christi (Warsaw, 1701)  7.8 Jesuit Theatre and the Scottish History  7.9 King Coenred of Mercia: Jesuits and the Echoes of Morality Plays  7.10 English History and the Rewards of Learning on the Jesuit Stage: Nieśwież (1724) and Mohylev (1732) 8 Thomas Pounde and Vandamorillus in the Eighteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Jesuit Theatre  8.1 Lusus in seria (Vilnius 1733)  8.2 Józef Katenbring, Próżność nad próżnościami (Vanitas vanitatum) (Nieśwież, 1755)  8.3 Jan Bielski, Vandamorillus, Kalisz 1747 9 Thomas More Plays from Poland-Lithuania  9.1 Messis immortalium trophaeorum Thomae Mori (Zamość, 1736)  9.2 Morus Angliae Cancellarius (Lviv, 1765) Conclusions Appendix 1: Jesuit Playbills Printed in Vilnius: a Chronology Appendix 2: Anglo-Scottish Themes, Authors and Sources in the School Theatre of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [1597–1755] Glossary Gazetteer Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004697263
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 708
  • Series Title: 142 Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World
  • Weight: 700 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004697268
  • Publisher Date: 17 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland–Lithuania
  • Width: 155 mm


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