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- Title
DIE UNGARISCHE GESCHICHTE IM LATEINISCHEN JESUITENDRAMA DES DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN KULTURRAUMS.
- Authors
Tüskés, Gabor; Knapp, Éva
- Abstract
A distinct sub-group of Jesuit drama includes works on the history of a country or a people. Comparative examinations of Jesuit dramas with a historical subject are only found sporadically. This work deals with the exploration of those Jesuit dramas with Hungarian themes that were performed in German speaking regions. The source material offers the possibility of analyzing the historical pictures conveyed by the drama texts and "Periochen" and to study the religious identity brought forth as a result of recatholicization. It also presents opportunities to examine international transmission, changes and interaction of the drama texts and topics as well as themes and "topoi" of specific national characteristics. It also gives the chance to look at the views of Hungary from inside and out of the country and to compare the dramas on an interdenominational basis. The examination of the source material cited in the drama texts and "Periochen" can illuminate the existing relationships with other types of literature, texts and rhetorical forms. We are also searching for answers to the following questions: What is the explanation for the large number of dramas on the subject of Hungarian history that were performed in German speaking regions? What hidden political, historical and other evidence do these dramas contain? Our observations can supplement and bring into sharper focus many earlier conclusions about the history of the Jesuit theater in Hungary. At the same time the source material gives indications of the European distribution of historical themes dealt with in Hungarian literature. Since most of the drama texts and "Periochen" were either partly or completely written in Latin, this topic is also closely connected with research into neo-Latin literature. We will also attempt to present previously untapped sources on our topic in a bibliographic manner. Likewise it is important to examine the types of themes, the occasions of performance, the authors, directors and the sources cited in the pieces and in this fashion to gain an overview of the historical cliches, characteristic symbols and rhetorical topoi by which Hungarian history was characterized.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; JESUIT drama; GERMAN drama, Early modern, 1500-1700; HUNGARIAN literature; CHRISTIAN drama; GERMAN historical drama; HUNGARIAN history
- Publication
Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2009, Vol 78, Issue 155, p57
- ISSN
0037-8887
- Publication type
Article