Watching the Virtues: Playbills, Drama and the Teaching of Civic Virtue in the Jesuit Theatre of Poland-Lithuania

Jolanta Rzegocka explores the Jesuit theatre of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, showing its role in educating the youth of mostly Catholic and other denominations, and shaping political discourse. Using over 800 playbills, she analyses the diffusion of Anglo-Scottish themes and narratives in Poland-Lithuania through Jesuit theatre as a cultural phenomenon and discusses a hitherto unknown play about Thomas More (1765).