TY - BOOK ID - 1645413 TI - Urban theatre in the Low Countries : 1400-1625 AU - Strietman, Elsa AU - Happé, Peter PY - 2006 VL - 12 SN - 2503517005 9782503517001 9782503538983 PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Chambers of rhetoric KW - Dutch drama KW - Nederlands. KW - Rederijkerskamers. KW - Rhetoricians KW - Toneel. KW - Toneelstukken. KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Theatrical science KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Belgium KW - Netherlands KW - Luxembourg KW - België. KW - Nederland. KW - Theater KW - Drama, Medieval KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Théâtre néerlandais KW - Histoire et critique KW - Linguists KW - Philologists KW - Flemish drama KW - Dutch literature KW - Rederijkerskamers KW - Literature KW - Societies, etc. KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - To 1500 KW - Benelux countries KW - Theater - Europe, Northern - History - Medieval, 500-1500 KW - Drama, Medieval - History and criticism KW - Dutch drama - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism KW - Rhetoricians - Benelux countries - History KW - Chambers of rhetoric - Benelux countries - History KW - België. KW - Théâtre KW - Chambres de rhétorique KW - Belgique KW - Pays-Bas KW - 1400-1625 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1645413 AB - This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Reflecting social, religious, and economic realities at a time of fundamental change, the Rhetoricians’ plays also reveal a range of poetic and theatrical conventions that make them an important source of information both on practical stagecraft and on the role of theatre in the urban community, as seen in their involvement in civic processions or the organization of drama competitions. The volume sets the Rhetoricians’ drama in the cultural life of the provinces of the Low Countries during a period dominated by ruling foreign dynasties: the Burgundian dukes and then the Habsburg dynasty, most prominently the Emperor Charles V and his son King Philip II of Spain. It was a time of intense religious controversy which gave rise to debates both on and off stage. These debates, far from damaging Rhetorician culture, actually stimulated its activities and development to such an extent that Rhetoricians became representative voices for their time. The admixture of entertainment and education offered by the Chambers to their own members - and to a wider public - was one which, though originating in a medieval context, soon became linked with humanist and Renaissance thinking. This volume illustrates how, as a consequence, the Chambers of Rhetoric contributed to the development in the Low Countries of an increasingly articulate society. ER -