Watching the Virtues : Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland-Lithuania /

Watching the Virtues : Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland-Lithuania /

In Watching the Virtues, Jolanta Rzegocka offers an account of the Jesuit theatre in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through the playbills, which record an astonishing variety of story designs and tales crafted for the stage. Her study reveals the profound role of Jesuit theatre (1564-1733) in th...

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Main Author: Rzegocka, Jolanta (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Library of the Written Word ; 142.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Art History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.
Religious Studies.

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Call Number: PK6530

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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.