Nienke Tjoelker, Ph.D. (University College Cork, 2010) is Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. She has published many articles on Neo-Latin literature.

• List of illustrationsIntroduction: Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas FritzThe History of Theatre in Jesuit SchoolsThe Relevance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth CenturyDevelopments and Innovations in the Eighteenth Century Andreas Friz: Life, Work and Historical ContextStructure and Content of MS 938 and the Epistola de TragaediisFriz’s Place in the Literary TraditionCommonplace Conceptions in Jesuit PoeticsFrench and Italian Classicism in Jesuit PoeticsEighteenth-Century Jesuit PoeticsDescription of the Manuscript and Edition PrinciplesDescription of the ManuscriptEdition PrinciplesLatin Text and TranslationAppendix: Analysis tragaediarum RaciniIntroduction to Friz’s Analyses to Racine’s PlaysEdition PrinciplesLatin TextIndex

“Tjoelker’s book raises the curtain on a vibrant world of late German Jesuit drama, one of increased rather than diminished social importance in the eighteenth century”. Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 251-253.

Nienke Tjoelker, Ph.D. (University College Cork, 2010) is Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. She has published many articles on Neo-Latin literature.

• List of illustrationsIntroduction: Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas FritzThe History of Theatre in Jesuit SchoolsThe Relevance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth CenturyDevelopments and Innovations in the Eighteenth Century Andreas Friz: Life, Work and Historical ContextStructure and Content of MS 938 and the Epistola de TragaediisFriz’s Place in the Literary TraditionCommonplace Conceptions in Jesuit PoeticsFrench and Italian Classicism in Jesuit PoeticsEighteenth-Century Jesuit PoeticsDescription of the Manuscript and Edition PrinciplesDescription of the ManuscriptEdition PrinciplesLatin Text and TranslationAppendix: Analysis tragaediarum RaciniIntroduction to Friz’s Analyses to Racine’s PlaysEdition PrinciplesLatin TextIndex

“Tjoelker’s book raises the curtain on a vibrant world of late German Jesuit drama, one of increased rather than diminished social importance in the eighteenth century”. Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 251-253.

Nienke Tjoelker, Ph.D. (University College Cork, 2010) is Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. She has published many articles on Neo-Latin literature.

• List of illustrationsIntroduction: Jesuit Theatre, Poetics and Andreas FritzThe History of Theatre in Jesuit SchoolsThe Relevance of Jesuit Theatre in the Eighteenth CenturyDevelopments and Innovations in the Eighteenth Century Andreas Friz: Life, Work and Historical ContextStructure and Content of MS 938 and the Epistola de TragaediisFriz’s Place in the Literary TraditionCommonplace Conceptions in Jesuit PoeticsFrench and Italian Classicism in Jesuit PoeticsEighteenth-Century Jesuit PoeticsDescription of the Manuscript and Edition PrinciplesDescription of the ManuscriptEdition PrinciplesLatin Text and TranslationAppendix: Analysis tragaediarum RaciniIntroduction to Friz’s Analyses to Racine’s PlaysEdition PrinciplesLatin TextIndex

“Tjoelker’s book raises the curtain on a vibrant world of late German Jesuit drama, one of increased rather than diminished social importance in the eighteenth century”. Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Parergon, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2016), pp. 251-253.