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SFORZA PALLAVICino MARTYR HERMENEGILD Edited & TRANSLATED BY STEFANO MUNERONI
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Pallavicino M a rt y r H e r M e n e g i l d
Sforza Pallavicino’s play Martyr Hermenegild
play Martyr Hermenegild (1644) is a masterpiece (1644) is a masterpiece of ofseventeenthy Jesuit hagiographical drama. It brings to the stage the last century Jesuit hagiographical drama. It brings int Hermenegild (d. 585), a Visigoth prince who rejected the stagemuch theto the last day in the life of Saint rtedto to Catholicism, displeasure of his father condemned him to death (d. for such apostasy.aResolute in Hermenegild 585), Visigoth prince very end, Hermenegild dies a martyr’s death and ascends who rejected Arianism and converted to The play, complete with a cross-dressed character used Catholicism, much to the displeasure of his esuit order’s ban on women actors on stage, is a brilliant King who goals. condemned him to lledfather Aristotelian unities Levigild and Jesuit pedagogical While learned introduction offers readers an insightful overview in his new death for such apostasy. Resolute o’s life, Pallavicino’s own very postscriptend, to the play elucidates faith to the Hermenegild dies a n theatre, its rules, and its functions as a pedagogical tool. martyr’s death and ascends in glory to heaven. ish translation of Pallavicino’s play and post-script fills a Theon play, complete a cross-dressed olarship Jesuit theatre by providingwith readers with an source that will helpused to contextualize research and illustrate character to circumvent the Jesuit order’s ogical and on artistic contributions of the Society of Jesus tois a brilliant ban women actors on stage, dern Europe.
example of the so-called Aristotelian unities and Jesuit translation, pedagogical goals. While Stefano xt, an accomplished and desirable material to odern scholars. Muneroni’s learned introduction offers readers Donald Beecher, Carleton UniversityPallavicino’s an insightful overview of Sforza life, Pallavicino’s own postscript to the play kes Pallavicino’s patterned rhyming poetry with all its elucidates thetheological author’s views on theatre, its deep engagement with discourses, and turns ging,rules, tightly argued, English prose to and suspenseful its functions assuitathe pedagogical tool. This first ever English translation of of Alberta Pallavicino’sRosalind play Kerr, andUniversity post-script fills a gap existing scholarship Jesuit theatre by oniin teaches in the Department of Drama aton the University author of Hermenegildo and the Jesuits: in providing readers withStaging an Sainthood important primary riodsource (Palgrave, 2017) and Play Analysis: The Dramaturgical that will help to contextualize research Publishing, 2014). and illustrate the profound pedagogical and artistic contributions of the Society of Jesus to theatre in early modern Europe. CRRS Victoria University
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Pallavicino M a rt y r H e r M e n e g i l d
SFORZA PALLAVICINO MARTYR HERMENEGILD Edited & TRANSLATED BY STEFANO MUNERONI
Sforza Pallavicino M artyr H erMenegild Edited and translated by Stefano Muneroni CRRS
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