Vanitas Vanitatum
- First performance: 31. 5. 1726, Prague – Clementinum, the highest grammar class
- Author: Joannes Tiller, SJ (1701–1735)
In his third Nepomucene play, Vanity of Vanities used J. Tiller the psychomachia principle. John is presented here as a “spiritual teacher” (sacratior magister, vitae sanctioris magister) – apparently already as a young man, who with the help of the usual symbols of vanity (apple ridden with worms, rose hiding its thorn etc.) saves the soul of a noble youth from the seduction of Philocosmus. More info in Czech
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[Joannes Tiller]: Nobilissima sapientis lectio Vanitas vanitatum, ex libro aeternae
veritatis desumpta et pro fundamento Coelestis in terra occupationis Adolpho, illustri
stirpis avitae surculo, per Sacratiorem Magistrum Joannem Nepomucenum quondam recitata.
Hodie in theatro repetita agente Celsissima, Illustrissima, Perillustri, Praenobili,
Nobili et Ingenua syntaxi Pragena ad S. Clementem anno 1726, mense …, die…
National
Library CR, sign. 52 A 39, adl. 65
Digital copy
Kateřina Bobková-Valentová – Alena Bočková – Magdaléna Jacková – Martin Bažil – Eva Pauerová – Jan Zdichynec – Zdeněk Žalud: Sv. Jan Nepomucký na jezuitských školních scénách. Praha: Academia, 2015. (= Theatrum Neolatinum. Latinské divadlo v českých zemích, 1.), p. 494-503.
