Miguel Venegas and the earliest Jesuit theater choruses for tragedies in sixteenth-century Europe

Miguel Venegas of Ávila -- Miguel Venegas : the master and the Jesuit -- The Alcalá legacy : from grammar to the Bible, from rhetoric to theater -- Miguel Venegas and the dramatic tradition in Spain -- School theater in Coimbra during the time of Miguel Venegas : the Colégio das Artes -- The literar...

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1. Verfasser: Miranda, Maria Margarida Lopes de (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, Boston Brill 2019
Schriftenreihe:Jesuit studies volume 23
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Zusammenfassung:Miguel Venegas of Ávila -- Miguel Venegas : the master and the Jesuit -- The Alcalá legacy : from grammar to the Bible, from rhetoric to theater -- Miguel Venegas and the dramatic tradition in Spain -- School theater in Coimbra during the time of Miguel Venegas : the Colégio das Artes -- The literary works Miguel Venegas produced in Portugal (1559-62) -- Drama sacrum et Latinum : the Tragoedia sacra ex 3° Lb. Regum Cap. 18-20-21 and the beginning of a cycle of tragic plays -- Optime more tragico canebantur : Francisco de Santa María and the dramatic choruses of Miguel Venegas, 1559-62.
"In Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater, Margarida Miranda takes a fresh look at the origins of Jesuit theater and provides a detailed account of the life and work of Miguel Venegas (1529-after 1588) within the Iberian tradition. The book details Venegas's role as the founder of Jesuit theater in Portugal and the creator of a new musical genre, choruses for tragedies, which was gradually codified and emulated by successive generations of Jesuits. Venegas's Latin tragedies in turn provided the model for regular dramatic activities in the global network of Jesuit schools, including, significantly, the first tragedies to be staged in Rome: Saul Gelboeus and Achabus, both of which had originally been performed in Coimbra in the mid-sixteenth century"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 240 Seiten
ISBN:9789004340428
978-90-04-34042-8