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Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age

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  • Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)

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    • i - xi
      Preliminary Material
    • 1 - 6
      Vondel’s Dramas: A Chronological Survey
    • 7 - 22
      Vondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the Centuries
    • 23 - 47
      Vondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and Past
    • 49 - 83
      Vondel’s Life
    • 85 - 100
      Vondel’s Religion
    • 101 - 114
      Vondel and Amsterdam
    • 115 - 138
      Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and Body
    • 139 - 156
      Vondel’s Theatre and Music
    • 157 - 170
      Vondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in Performance
    • 171 - 198
      Between Disregard and Political Mobilization – Vondel as a Playwright in Contemporary European Context: England, France and the German Lands
    • 199 - 224
      New Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish Question
    • 225 - 248
      Politics and Aesthetics – Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625)
    • 249 - 269
      Translation Studies – Vondel’s Appropriation of Grotius’s Sophompaneas (1635)
    • 271 - 284
      Intertextuality – Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637)
    • 285 - 315
      Dramaturgy – Staging Problems in Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel
    • 317 - 340
      Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays
    • 341 - 358
      The Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646)
    • 359 - 376
      Deconstruction – Unsettling Peace in Leeuwendalers (1647)
    • 377 - 405
      Religion and Politics – Lucifer (1654) and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674)
    • 407 - 426
      Gender Studies – Emotions in Jeptha (1659)
    • 427 - 444
      Close Reading and Theory – The David Plays
    • 445 - 458
      Psychoanalysis – Law, Theatre and Violence in Samson (1660)
    • 459 - 487
      Law and Literature – Batavische gebroeders (1663)
    • 489 - 508
      New Philology – Variants in Adam in ballingschap (1664)
    • 509 - 527
      Philosophy – Noah (1667) on God and Nature
    • 529 - 578
      Bibliography of Vondel’s Dramas (1850–2010)
    • 579 - 610
      Works Cited
    • 611 - 617
      About the Authors
    • 619 - 628
      Index of Names, Including Characters
    • 629 - 634
      Index of Names of Scholars
    • 635 - 652
      Index of Concepts, Subjects, Themes, Geographical Names

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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.

  • Erratum
    • Publication Date : 15 August 2012
    • DOI : 10.1163/9789004218833-01
    • File Size: 138395
    • File format:application/pdf
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