Saint Francis Xavier on Jesuit school stages of the Bohemian Province
Saint Francis Xavier on Jesuit school stages of the Bohemian Province

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with Jesuit school dramas from Bohemian lands, whose protagonist is St. Francis Xavier. Four complete texts and thirteen plays preserved only in form of synopsis are analysed primarily from the point of view of most frequent motives, known also from biographies of Xavier and from fine arts. The analysis shows that in Xaverian plays from the Provincia Bohemia SJ appear both the themes and motives well known from the surviving production of other lands, and the adaptations less usual or unsupported. The synopses and texts therefore prove that many Jesuits were able to deal with the frequently treated theme such as the life of Francis Xavier, handled almost always in an exclusively allegorical way, newly and originally.

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