Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater

Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9789004407053
ISBN-13 : 9004407057
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Book Synopsis Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater by : Margarida Miranda

Download or read book Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater written by Margarida Miranda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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