A Dutch Republican Baroque : : Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event / / Frans-Willem Korsten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Korsten, Frans-Willem,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 color plates

In the Dutch Republic in the Baroque era, two aesthetic formal modes, theater and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterized by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach to the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatization, moment, and event.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Republican baroque: a thunderclap, a city hall and two executions -- 2. The dramatic potential in history: Rome and the Republic - Grevius, Vondel, Knüpfer, and Job -- 3. The cruel death of worlds and political incompatibility - the brothers De Witt -- 4. A happy split of worlds or the comedic sublime - Frans Hals -- 5. The seas or the world as scene - Focquenbroch and Grotius -- 6. Not a frame but a lens: the touch of knowledge - Rumphius, Vossius, Spinoza -- 7. Public theater, collective drama and the new - Van den Enden and Huygens -- 8. Interrupting time for the sake of division: history and the tableau vivant - Rembrandt (Abraham and Isaac), Quast, Vondel, and Vos -- List of illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of names