ISBN:
9789004218833
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (666 p)
Series Statement:
Drama and theatre in early modern Europe 1
Series Statement:
Drama and theatre in early modern Europe
Keywords:
c 1600 to c 1700
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Theatre studies
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History
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Vondel, Joost van den 1587-1679
Abstract:
Both historically and theoretically this book deals the work and the life of Joost van den Vondel, the most famous and controversial Dutch playwright in the Dutch Republic. Over twenty-five of his tragedies are analyzed, offering an overview of different theoretical approaches. Historically, Vondel is situated in his own times and in the present
Description / Table of Contents:
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679); Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Vondel's Dramas: A Chronological Survey; 2 Vondel's Works for the Stage Read and Studied over the Centuries; 3 Vondel's Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and Past; PART I VONDEL'S LIFE, WORKS AND TIMES; 4 Vondel's Life; 5 Vondel's Religion; 6 Vondel and Amsterdam; 7 Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and Body; 8 Vondel's Theatre and Music; 9 Vondel's Dramas: Their Afterlife in Performance
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Between Disregard and Political Mobilization - Vondel as a Playwright in Contemporary European Context: England, France and the German LandsPART II APPROACHES AND DRAMAS; 11 New Historicism - Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish Question*; 12 Politics and Aesthetics - Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625); 13 Translation Studies - Vondel's Appropriation of Grotius's Sophompaneas (1635); 14 Intertextuality - Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637); 15 Dramaturgy - Staging problems in Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel; 16 Cultural Analysis - The Joseph Plays
Description / Table of Contents:
17 The Humanist Tradition - Maria Stuart (1646)18 Deconstruction - Unsettling Peace in Leeuwendalers (1647); 19 Religion and Politics - Lucifer (1654) and Milton's Paradise Lost (1674); 20 Gender Studies - Emotions in Jeptha (1659); 21 Close Reading and Theory - The David Plays; 22 Psychoanalysis - Law, Theatre and Violence in Samson (1660); 23 Law and Literature - Batavische gebroeders (1663); 24 New Philology - Variants in Adam in ballingschap (1664); 25 Philosophy - Noah (1667) on God and Nature; 26 Bibliography of Vondel's dramas (1850-2010); Bibliography; About the Authors; Indices;
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English
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