Open AccessTwo 17th century Jesuit plays in Ljubljana inspired by English literature
Author(s) -
Nada Grošelj
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.37.1-2.61-71
Subject(s) - extant taxon , subject matter , drama , subject (documents) , history , literature , emphasis (telecommunications) , classics , history of english , english literature , art , sociology , pedagogy , library science , curriculum , evolutionary biology , computer science , electrical engineering , biology , engineering
Jesuit teachers, whose members came to Ljubljana in the late 16th century, placed great emphasis on the production and staging of the school drama. Despite the domination of religious themes, the range of its subject matter was wide and varied. The article discusses two plays which derived their subject matter from English literature, namely from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and Holinshed's Historie of Britain.The texts themselves are lost, but in the case of the Holinshed-inspired work (a version of the King Lear story), a detailed synopsis has been preserved. The article examines the synopsis and the extant manuscript reports about the plays, the original English sources, and the treatment of the two works in contemporary scholarly treatises.