This year marks the 400th anniversary of the confirmation of the Constitution of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola. To commemorate the event, Baltimore's Loyola College last week presentedfor the first time in Englisha play written by a Jesuit and first produced 331 years ago. The Cenodoxus of Jacob Bidermann, once a great hit, gradually dropped out of sight. But in recent years it has been brilliantly revived in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, Munich.
Cenodoxus, Master of Paris is an unabashed morality play revealing the struggle between good & evil in the soul of a wealthy and learned Parisian. Cenodoxus ("Vainglory")...
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