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Title Drama, performance and debate : theatre and public opinion in the early modern period / edited by Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Elsa Strietman
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 373 pages) : illustrations
Series Drama and theatre in early modern Europe, 2211-341X ; v. 2
Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; 2.
Contents Of a confraternity? a performance at the Puy de Notre-Dame in Amiens in 1473 / Katell Laveant -- Fernandus Servatus and the poem Supra casum hispani regis by Petrus Martyr: drama and diplomacy in papal Rome under Alexander VI / Hartmut Beyer -- Public space in France (1490-1520) / Jelle Koopmans -- Theatricality, controversy, and publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530s / Arjan van Dixhoorn -- Gnapheus and the confessionalization of the Lutheran Church / Verena Demoed -- In the Antwerp entry of Charles V and his son Philip / Stijn Bussels -- Seventeenth-century Dutch theatre / Hubert Meeus -- Dutch Biblical rhetoricians' plays / Elsa Strietman -- Unintended topicality in Lummenaeus a Marca's Carcer Babylonius (1610) / Ron J. Gruijters -- Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin's Tragoediae Sacrae (1620): moral issues in the portrayal of Passions / Jean-Frederic 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 Besanger -- Masks and skulls: towards an anatomy of drama in the seventeenth century / Helmar Schramm
Summary 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 to convey explicit or implicit lessons that they carried out or had carried out by linguistic, rhetorical and theatrical means. How explicit they were in expressing their views depended on the characters of the authors or the circumstances in which they wrote. Questions regarding the opinion-forming and opinion-following functions of theatre, the means by which authors and theatre makers expressed their ideas, and the role of theatre and plays in public debate are discussed from various angles. Such questions refer not only to ¿́¿literary¿́¿ plays, but also to other forms of theatrical event, such as royal entrances. Contributors include: Imre Be¿¿sanger, Hartmut Beyer, Stijn Bussels, Jean-Fre¿¿de¿¿ric Chevalier, Verena Demoed, Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ron Gruijters, Jelle Koopmans, Frans-Willem Korsten, Katell Lave¿¿ant, Hubert Meeus, Marco Prandoni, and Helmar Schramm
Notes Selected essays presented at the conference, Drama, Performance and Debate, held in Amsterdam, 29-31 May 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Theater -- Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses
Theater -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses
Theater -- Europe -- History -- 15th century -- Congresses
Theater and society -- Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses
Theater and society -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses
Theater and society -- Europe -- History -- 15th century -- Congresses
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Theater
Theater and society
Theater
Gesellschaft
Öffentliche Meinung
Europe
Europa
Niederlande
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bloemendal, Jan, 1961-
Eversmann, Peter
Strietman, Elsa
ISBN 9789004236998
9004236996