Drama, Performance and Debate
Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period
Edited by Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
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Biographical note
Jan Bloemendal (1961) is a Senior Researcher at the Huygens ING (The Hague) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include early modern drama, Erasmus, bilingualism and emblematics. He published on Dutch drama and edited G.J. Vossius's Poeticae institutiones.
Peter G.F. Eversmann (1955) is Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam and editor-in-chief of the FIRT/IFTR series Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance. His research topics include theatrical space, theatrical events and empirical audience and reception research.
Elsa Strietman is a Senior Lecturer in Dutch in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow, Graduate Tutor and Vice President of Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) in the University of Cambridge. She specializes in Dutch rhetoricians’ drama.
Contributors include: Imre Bésanger, Hartmut Beyer, Stijn Bussels, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Verena Demoed, Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ron Gruijters, Jelle Koopmans, Frans-Willem Korsten, Katell Lavéant, Hubert Meeus, Marco Prandoni and Helmar Schramm.
Peter G.F. Eversmann (1955) is Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam and editor-in-chief of the FIRT/IFTR series Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance. His research topics include theatrical space, theatrical events and empirical audience and reception research.
Elsa Strietman is a Senior Lecturer in Dutch in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow, Graduate Tutor and Vice President of Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) in the University of Cambridge. She specializes in Dutch rhetoricians’ drama.
Contributors include: Imre Bésanger, Hartmut Beyer, Stijn Bussels, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier, Verena Demoed, Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ron Gruijters, Jelle Koopmans, Frans-Willem Korsten, Katell Lavéant, Hubert Meeus, Marco Prandoni and Helmar Schramm.
Readership
All those interested in early modern history, the history of drama, the history of public opinion, Neo-Latin scholars.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Drama, Performance, Debate. Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period: An Introduction
Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
Ch. 1: Personal Expression of a Playwright or Public Discourse of a Confraternity? A Performance at the Puy de Notre-Dame in Amiens in 1473
Katell Lavéant
Ch. 2: Carlo and Marcellino Verardi’s Fernandus servatus and the Poem Supra casum Hispani regis by Petrus Martyr: Drama and Diplomacy in Papal Rome under Alexander VI
Hartmut Beyer
Ch. 3: The University out on the streets: Drama, Debate and Public Space in France (1490–1520)
Jelle Koopmans
Ch. 4: Theatre Society in the Early Modern Low Countries: Theatricality, Controversy, and Publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530s
Arjan van Dixhoorn
Ch. 5: Theatre in Court: The Heresy Trial Against the Playwright Gnapheus and the Confessionalization of the Lutheran Church
Verena Demoed
Ch. 6: All About Eve: Genesis and Gender in a Fireworks Display in the Antwerp Entry of Charles V and his Son Philip
Stijn Bussels
Ch. 7: Staged Conversations: Topical Discourse in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Biblical Rhetoricians’ Plays
Elsa Strietman
Ch. 8: The peasant as a mouthpiece of public opinion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch theatre
Hubert Meeus
Ch. 9: Public Debate and Early Modern Drama: Intended or Unintended Topicality in Lummenaeus à Marca’s Carcer Babylonius (1610)
Ron J. Gruijters
Ch. 10: Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin’s Tragoediae sacrae (1620): Moral issues in the portrayal of passions
Jean-Frédéric Chevalier
Ch. 11: ‘Founded for the Ears and Eyes of the People’: Picturing the Amsterdam Schouwburg from 1637
Peter Eversmann
Ch. 12: Staging the History of Amsterdam in Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel: A Non-Confessional Dramatic Contribution to the Narrative of the Dutch Revolt
Marco Prandoni
Ch. 13: Mundus Dramaticus: A School Drama and Dramatization – Franciscus van den Enden
Frans-Willem Korsten
Ch. 14: Ballet de la Paix: Staging a Seventeenth-century Theatre Performance
Imre Bésanger
Ch. 15: Masks and Skulls: Towards an Anatomy of Drama in the Seventeenth Century
Helmar Schramm
About the authors
Bibliography
Index of names
Drama, Performance, Debate. Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period: An Introduction
Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
Ch. 1: Personal Expression of a Playwright or Public Discourse of a Confraternity? A Performance at the Puy de Notre-Dame in Amiens in 1473
Katell Lavéant
Ch. 2: Carlo and Marcellino Verardi’s Fernandus servatus and the Poem Supra casum Hispani regis by Petrus Martyr: Drama and Diplomacy in Papal Rome under Alexander VI
Hartmut Beyer
Ch. 3: The University out on the streets: Drama, Debate and Public Space in France (1490–1520)
Jelle Koopmans
Ch. 4: Theatre Society in the Early Modern Low Countries: Theatricality, Controversy, and Publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530s
Arjan van Dixhoorn
Ch. 5: Theatre in Court: The Heresy Trial Against the Playwright Gnapheus and the Confessionalization of the Lutheran Church
Verena Demoed
Ch. 6: All About Eve: Genesis and Gender in a Fireworks Display in the Antwerp Entry of Charles V and his Son Philip
Stijn Bussels
Ch. 7: Staged Conversations: Topical Discourse in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Biblical Rhetoricians’ Plays
Elsa Strietman
Ch. 8: The peasant as a mouthpiece of public opinion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch theatre
Hubert Meeus
Ch. 9: Public Debate and Early Modern Drama: Intended or Unintended Topicality in Lummenaeus à Marca’s Carcer Babylonius (1610)
Ron J. Gruijters
Ch. 10: Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin’s Tragoediae sacrae (1620): Moral issues in the portrayal of passions
Jean-Frédéric Chevalier
Ch. 11: ‘Founded for the Ears and Eyes of the People’: Picturing the Amsterdam Schouwburg from 1637
Peter Eversmann
Ch. 12: Staging the History of Amsterdam in Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel: A Non-Confessional Dramatic Contribution to the Narrative of the Dutch Revolt
Marco Prandoni
Ch. 13: Mundus Dramaticus: A School Drama and Dramatization – Franciscus van den Enden
Frans-Willem Korsten
Ch. 14: Ballet de la Paix: Staging a Seventeenth-century Theatre Performance
Imre Bésanger
Ch. 15: Masks and Skulls: Towards an Anatomy of Drama in the Seventeenth Century
Helmar Schramm
About the authors
Bibliography
Index of names
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