Notes on the Early Jesuit Theatre in Poland. [From: Theatrum Europaeum, Festschrift für Elida Maria Szarota].

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S. 109-113. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise clean. - From the text: It is with great hesitation that the Jesuit theatre reveals its real substance and the fine net of its often surprisingly close connections with life. Its burdensome style, allegories based on alien associations and appealing to emotions which we do not experience, distance it effectively from a modem reader. What it presents on the stage is a larger or smaller episode in the eternal struggle between good and evil: the struggle for a human soul; always the same, though taking place in various settings and at different times. The performance itself is also a shot directed into the center of this struggle at the Devilish Powers besetting the souls of the spectators. The modem reader of the text of a Jesuit performance remains however - and quite naturally indifferent to all of that. Moreover, he finds the poetics alien to his tastes, offensive, and is liable to consider the ideas primitve and quaint, whereas the undoubtedly masterful and shrewd construction of the plot, which he tends to consider pointless, easily escapes his attention. - Wikipedia: Jerzy Axer (* 18. April 1946 in Lódz) ist ein polnischer Literaturhistoriker und Altphilologe. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. N° de ref. del artículo 1208638

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