Word: bidermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confirmation of the Constitution of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola. To commemorate the event, Baltimore's Loyola College last week presented-for the first time in English-a 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...
...many picturesque moments, one towering one: the trial scene, with Christ, surrounded by saints and angels, in the Judgment Seat. At high moments, Cenodoxus is capable of a stern eloquence; at low ones, of a quaint humor. But except as a spectacle, the play limps, largely because Playwright Bidermann burdened his hero with the sin of Pride, "as the most decent for portrayal on the stage." It is also the most deadening; about all a playwright can do is lambaste it. Had Cenodoxus-who was, after all, a Parisian-gone in for a few of the more scarlet sins...
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