{"product_id":"joost-van-den-vondel-1587-1679-dutch-playwright-in-the-golden-age-9789004217539","title":"Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coinciding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political and artistic circles of Amsterdam, a contemporary and acquaintance of Grotius and Rembrandt, and in general well acquainted with Latin humanists, Dutch scholars, authors and Amsterdam burgomasters. He fuelled literary, religious and political debates. His tragedy 'Gysbreght van Aemstel', which was played on the occasion of the opening of the stone city theatre in 1638, was to become the most famous play in Dutch history, and can probably boast holding the record for the longest tradition of annual performance in Europe. In general, Vondel’s texts are literary works in the full sense of the word, complex and inexhaustive; attracting attention throughout the centuries.    Contributors include: Eddy Grootes, Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Mieke B. Smits-Veldt, Marijke Spies, Judith Pollmann, Bettina Noak, Louis Peter Grijp, Guillaume van Gemert, Jürgen Pieters, Nina Geerdink, Madeleine Kasten, Marco Prandoni, Peter Eversmann, Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter, James A. Parente, Jr., Stefan van der Lecq, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Helmer Helmers, Kristine Steenbergh, Yasco Horsman, Jeanne Gaakeer, and Wiep van Bunge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[This book] serves a dual purpose. It is the first comprehensive discussion of Vondel’s drama in English, and it offers a sampling of both more traditional and novel approaches. […] It brings Vondel’s large theatrical output to the attention of Anglophone readers, but does much more than that: by letting the light of theory shine on these plays, the book demonstrates just how rich, fresh, and valuable a writer Vondel remains.” Theo Hermans, University College London. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 345-347.  “this volume manages to present Vondel’s dramatic oeuvre in all its breadth for an international audience. It is a work of reference on the one hand and a research laboratory and forum for debate on the other. To its credit, this volume features the whole spectrum of past and present research on Vondel’s plays and integrates representatives of different methodological and theoretical provenance.” Maria-Theresia Leuker, University of Cologne. In: Journal of Dutch Literature, Vol. 4, No. 2 (December 2013), pp. 92-102.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter 1  \tVondel’s Dramas: A Chronological Survey \tEddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen   Chapter 2 \tVondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the Centuries \tRiet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen  Chapter 3  \tVondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and Past Frans-Willem Korsten    Part I – Vondel’s Life, Works and Times  Chapter 4 Vondel’s Life Mieke B. Smits-Veldt and Marijke Spies   Chapter 5 Vondel’s Religion Judith Pollmann  Chapter 6 Vondel and Amsterdam Eddy Grootes   Chapter 7  \tVondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and Body Bettina Noak  Chapter 8 Vondel’s Theatre and Music Louis Peter Grijp and Jan Bloemendal  Chapter 9 \tVondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in Performance \tMieke B. Smits-Veldt   Chapter 10  \tVondel’s Reception Abroad \tGuillaume van Gemert      Part II – Approaches and Dramas  Chapter 11  \tNew Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish Question Jürgen Pieters   Chapter 12  \tPolitics and Aesthetics – Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625) Nina Geerdink  Chapter 13   Translation Studies – Vondel’s Appropriation of Grotius’s Sophompaneas (1635) Madeleine Kasten   Chapter 14  \tIntertextuality – Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637)  Marco Prandoni   Chapter 15  \tDramaturgy – Staging Problems in Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637) Peter G.F. Eversmann   Chapter 16 \tCultural Analysis – Joseph Plays (1640) Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten   Chapter 17 \tThe Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646) James A. Parente Jr. and Jan Bloemendal   Chapter 18 Deconstruction – Unsettling Peace in Leeuwendalers (1647)  Stefan van der Lecq   Chapter 19  \tReligion and Politics – Lucifer (1654) and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674) Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Helmer Helmers   Chapter 20 \tGender Studies – Emotions in Jeptha (1659) \tKristine Steenbergh   Chapter 21  \tClose Reading and Theory – The David Plays (1660)  Frans-Willem Korsten   Chapter 22  \tPsychoanalysis – Law, Theatre and Violence in Samson (1660) Yasco Horsman   Chapter 23  Law and Literature – Batavische gebroeders (1663) Jeanne Gaakeer   Chapter 24  \tNew Philology – Variants in Adam in ballingschap (1664)\t Jan Bloemendal   Chapter 25 \tPhilosophy – Noah (1667) about God and Nature Wiep van Bunge   Works Cited   Part IV  Bibliography of Vondel’s dramas (1850–2008) Jan Bloemendal   About the authors  Indices","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210627178839,"sku":"9789004217539","price":254.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/joost-van-den-vondel-1587-1679-dutch-playwright-in-the-golden-age-9789004217539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}