Abstract
Recent discoveries of the Jesuit theatrical production in the eastern Mediterranean refers to theatrical life in Constantinople and the Aegean islands (especially Chios and Naxos) from 17 in the mid-18th century. Special Jesuit propaganda with local religious practices in dramatic texts bridges the gap between the theatrical developments in Renaissance Crete (in conquest of the island by the Turks in 1669) and the emergence of the modern Greek theater at turn of the 18th and 19 century.