... and duration Jordão Francisco de Almeida neo-Latin theater Jesuit theater Spanish comedia Iberian auto Latin oratorio José de Anchieta There was a time when Spanish theater dominated Portuguese stages. During the decades that followed the heirless death of Dom Sebastião in 1578, Portuguese playwrights...

...The historic Jesuit theater represents two centuries of didactic theater in which the Society of Jesus, following both the organizational instructions and Spiritual Exercises of founder Ignatius of Loyola, used theater to inculcate virtue in both performer and audience member while...

...The Jesuits were famous for didactic and college theater performances, but they also practiced other forms of theater in their scholasticates, close to the convent and amateur theater. Jesuit theater generally refers to the early modern period that corresponds to a specific moment in the Society’s...

... language Le Jay Gabriel Speccius Christoph Gretser Jacob periochae Claus Anton Masen Jacob Porée Charles Shakespeare William Voltaire wit Neo-Latin drama comedy humanism Renaissance Jesuit theater education religion hybridity classicism and anti-classicism In this chapter I...