Drama, performance and debate : : theatre and public opinion in the early modern period / / edited by Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Elsa Strietman.
Early modern theatre was a visual matter, even though the authors wrote plays which were mainly meant to be read. But whether they wrote their plays to have them performed or not, authors could use comedies, tragi-comedies or tragedies to influence public opinion, to make a statement in a debate, or...
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| Superior document: | Drama and theatre in early modern Europe, v. 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Notes: | Selected essays presented at the conference, Drama, Performance and Debate, held in Amsterdam, 29-31 May 2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Jan Bloemendal , Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
- Drama, Performance, Debate. Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period: An Introduction / Jan Bloemendal , Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
- 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
- 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
- The University out on the Streets: Drama, Debate and Public Space in France (1490–1520) / Jelle Koopmans
- Theatre Society in the Early Modern Low Countries: Theatricality, Controversy, and Publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530s / Arjan van Dixhoorn
- Theatre in Court: The Heresy Trial Against the Playwright Gnapheus and the Confessionalization of the Lutheran Church / Verena Demoed
- All About Eve: Genesis and Gender in a Fireworks Display in the Antwerp Entry of Charles V and His Son Philip / Stijn Bussels
- Staged Conversations: Topical Discourse in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Biblical Rhetoricians’ Plays / Elsa Strietman
- The Peasant as a Mouthpiece of Public Opinion in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Theatre / Hubert Meeus
- Public Debate and Early Modern Drama: Intended or Unintended Topicality in Lummenaeus à Marca’s Carcer Babylonius (1610) / Ron J. Gruijters
- Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin’s Tragoediae Sacrae (1620): Moral Issues in the Portrayal of Passions / Jean-Frédéric Chevalier
- ‘Founded for the Ears and Eyes of the People’: Picturing the Amsterdam Schouwburg from 1637 / Peter G.F. Eversmann
- 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
- Mundus Dramaticus: A School Drama and Dramatization – Franciscus van den Enden / Frans-Willem Korsten
- Ballet de la Paix: Staging a Seventeenth-Century Theatre Performance / Imre Bésanger
- Masks and Skulls: Towards an Anatomy of Drama in the Seventeenth Century / Helmar Schramm
- About the Authors / Jan Bloemendal , Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman
- Index of Names / Jan Bloemendal , Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa Strietman.