Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) : Dutch playwright in the golden age /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 652 pages) : portrait
Language:English
Series:Drama and theatre in early modern Europe, 2211-341X ; v. 1
Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; v. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396861
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Other authors / contributors:Bloemendal, Jan, 1961-
Korsten, Frans-Willem.
ISBN:9789004218833
9004218831
9004217533
9789004217539
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Summary:"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."--Publisher's description
Other form:Print version: Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004217539
Standard no.:402001
Table of Contents:
  • Vondel's Dramas: A Chronological Survey / Eddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen
  • Vondel's Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the Centuries / Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen
  • Vondel's Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and Past / Frans-Willem Korsten
  • Part I: Vondel's Life, Works and Times. Vondel's Life / Mieke B. Smits-Veldt and Marijke Spies
  • Vondel's Religion / Judith Pollmann
  • Vondel and Amsterdam / Eddy Grootes
  • Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and Body / Bettina Noak
  • Vondel's Theatre and Music / Louis Peter Grijp and Jan Bloemendal
  • Vondel's Dramas: Their Afterlife in Performance / Mieke B. Smits-Veldt
  • Between Disregard and Political Mobilization
  • Vondel as a Playwright in Contemporary European Context: England, France and the German Lands / Guillaume van Gemert
  • Part II: Approaches and Dramas. New Historicism
  • Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish Question / Jürgen Pieters
  • Politics and Aesthetics
  • Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625) / Nina Geerdink
  • Translation Studies
  • Vondel's Appropriation of Grotius's Sophompaneas (1635) / Madeleine Kasten
  • Intertextuality -Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637) / Marco Prandoni
  • Dramaturgy
  • Staging Problems in Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel / Peter G.F. Eversmann
  • Cultural Analysis
  • Joseph Plays / Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten
  • The Humanist Tradition
  • Maria Stuart (1646) / James A. Parente, Jr. and Jan Bloemendal
  • Deconstruction
  • Unsettling Peace in Leeuwendalers (1647) / Stefan van der Lecq
  • Religion and Politics
  • Lucifer (1654) and Milton's Paradise Lost (1674) / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Helmer Helmers
  • Gender Studies
  • Emotions in Jeptha (1659) / Kristine Steenbergh
  • Close Reading and Theory
  • The David Plays / Frans-Willem Korsten
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Law, Theatre and Violence in Samson (1660) / Yasco Horsman
  • Law and Literature
  • Batavische gebroeders (1663) / Jeanne Gaakeer
  • New Philology
  • Variants in Adam in ballingschap (1664) / Jan Bloemendal
  • Philosophy
  • Noah (1667) on God and Nature / Wiep van Bunge
  • Bibliography of Vondel's Dramas (1850-2010) / Jan Bloemendal.
  • pt. 1. Vondel's life, works and times
  • pt. 2. Approaches and dramas.