Cover illustration: Illustris ciuitatis Conimbriae in Lusitania (…) effigies. Photo: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra (bguc), Portugal.
[Famous engraving of Coimbra printed in the sixteenth century (1598) belonging to Ciuitates Orbis Terrarum, by George Braun and Frans Hogenberg, printed in Cologne in six volumes between the years of 1572 and 1618 (284 x 458 mm). In the lower left corner, a label identifies the most notable places. Next to this, two men dressed as students.]
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miranda, Maria Margarida Lopes de, 1966- author.
Title: Miguel Venegas and the earliest Jesuit theater : choruses for tragedies in sixteenth-century Europe / by Margarida Miranda.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 23 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “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”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: lccn 2019023153 (print) | lccn 2019023154 (ebook) | isbn 9789004340428 (hardback) | isbn 9789004407053 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Venegas, Miguel, 1531---Criticism and interpretation. | Jesuit theater--Portugal--History--16th century. | Latin drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Classification: lcc pn3178.j46 m56 2019 (print) | lcc pn3178.j46 (ebook) | ddc 872/.04--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019023153
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019023154
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issn 2214-3289
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