Christian Hercules--a new research method.

Abstract

This article tries to give a new method for Jesuit drama research, which studies the dramas not only as literary, but as complex literary and pedagogical works. The author chose to study Christian Hercules, which is an allegoric drama and was performed in Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1729. The characters of the ancient mythology and the allegories convey first a Christian meaning in this drama, when Isvan Dobo becomes the allegory of Hercules, and Hercules becomes the allegory of Dobo later, when Christian characters become ancient heroes again. We have only the program of this drama, so the author studies only the dramatic structure and the emblems, ...