Two adaptations of the myth of Atalanta in the Jesuit Theatre of the Bohemian Province: Arnold Engel (1656) and Heinrich Richter (1679)
2022
Abstract
Ancient mythology was taken up only relatively rarely in the school dramas of the Jesuits. In this chapter, two dramatic adaptations of the myth of Atalanta of the second half of the 17th century from the Bohemian Jesuit province are presented and contextualised in literary and theatrical history: the chorus after Act IV of the play "Costis Catharis Parthenomartyr Alexandrina" by Arnold Engel, and the play "Atalanta ... sive India" by Heinrich Richter, which takes its entire structure from the mythological material.