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Seneca's Tragedies and their Reception in the Jesuit School Theatre of the Bohemian Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1623-1773)
Popelková, Eva ; Bažil, Martin (advisor) ; Chevalier, Jean-Frédéric (referee) ; Jacková, Magdaléna (referee)
Seneca's Tragedies and their Reception in the Jesuit School Theatre of the Bohemian Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1623-1773) Eva Popelková Abstract The study of the reception of Seneca's tragedies in the Jesuit School theatre in the Bohemian province is focused on three aspects: the description of the mechanism and the expression of passions; the pedagogical issue linked to the figure of a tyrant, with an emphasis on female characters; and the image of pagan gods. The research is based on a comparison of Senecan tragedies and school plays from the Society of Jesus. The corpus consists of three parts: the printed plays of Carolus Kolczawa; the plays of Arnoldus Engel, both staged and intended for publication; and the plays devoted to John of Nepomuk, the emblematic saint of the Czech baroque period, which were not to be published. The analyses are preceded by an overview of the Senecan reception in the Early Modern Europe, the presentation of the Jesuit context and the studied corpus. Keywords Seneca, reception, Jesuit theatre, School theatre, Neo-Latin literature, Bohemian province, 17th century, 18th century
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Jesuit school drama in Prague 1700-1750
Jacková, Magdaléna ; Stehlíková, Eva (advisor) ; Svatoš, Martin (referee) ; Scherl, Adolf (referee)
The term school theatre is used to denote student-performed theatrical events that occupied a firmly established position in the school year calendar and/or one of whose main objectives was to demonstrate the students' progress in public comportment and their mastery of Latin. School theatre represents the least spectacular but the most wide-spread form of the Jesuit theatre. At the same time, it is the least known facet of the Jesuit theatre since only very few plays survived. This makes all the more valuable the corpus of 66 complete texts from Prague's colleges. It is thanks to this body of texts, that we can form at least a partial idea of the theatrical productions staged at Prague gymnasia in the first half of the 18th century. Jesuit school theatre in its simplest form is represented by exercitationes and declamationes: semi-public productions whose audiences were typically limited to the students of one class. There were two annual occasions for the presentation of school plays: the Carnival time and the end of the school year. Since the evidence of Carnival productions at the Jesuit gymnasia in Prague in the first half of the 18th century is scarce, it may be presumed that the majority of the extant texts belong to the category of plays offered at the close of the school year. Initially, a single...
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