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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.
Chambers of rhetoric --- Dutch drama --- Nederlands. --- Rederijkerskamers. --- Rhetoricians --- Toneel. --- Toneelstukken. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Theatrical science --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Belgium --- Netherlands --- Luxembourg --- België. --- Nederland. --- Theater --- Drama, Medieval --- History --- History and criticism --- Théâtre néerlandais --- Histoire et critique --- Linguists --- Philologists --- Flemish drama --- Dutch literature --- Rederijkerskamers --- Literature --- Societies, etc. --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- To 1500 --- Benelux countries --- Theater - Europe, Northern - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Drama, Medieval - History and criticism --- Dutch drama - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Rhetoricians - Benelux countries - History --- Chambers of rhetoric - Benelux countries - History --- België. --- Théâtre --- Chambres de rhétorique --- Belgique --- Pays-Bas --- 1400-1625
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"Gary Waite examines the social and religious messages of the plays presented, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise." "Presenting an overview of some eighty surviving scripts from across the Low Countries, Waite considers in particular the culture and drama of two distinct urban communities: Antwerp and Amsterdam. He argues that the dramatists promoted a wide range of reform perspectives, but in so doing they reshaped reform ideas to accommodate their own concerns as urban artisans and merchants. In the end, despite their desire for peace, they contributed significantly to the rise of anticlerical sentiment and reform aspirations and to increasing dissatisfaction with Habsburg rule." "Offering perspectives gleaned from primary material that is available only in sixteenth-century Dutch, this study adds significantly to existing scholarship on the local ramifications of the Reformation in the Low Countries."--Jacket.
Chambers of rhetoric
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Dutch drama
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Reformation
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Theater and society
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Theater
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History.
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History and criticism.
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History
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Religious aspects.
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Dutch literature
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Drama
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anno 1500-1599
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History and criticism
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Rederijkerskamers
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Actors
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Society and theater
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Protestant Reformation
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Church history
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Counter-Reformation
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Protestantism
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Literature
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Religious aspects
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Moral and religious aspects
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Social status
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Social aspects
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Societies, etc.
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Chambers of rhetoric - Benelux countries - History
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Dutch drama - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
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Theater and society - Benelux countries - History - 16th century
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Theater - Religious aspects
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Reformation - Benelux countries
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Niederlande
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Benelux countries.
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Low countries
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Staat Holland
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Vereinigte Niederlande
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Holland
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Batavische Republik
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Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Provinzen
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Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
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Nederland
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Nederlanden
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Netherlands
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Königreich der Niederlande
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Besetzte Niederländische Gebiete
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