Drama, performance and debate
Subtitle: theatre and public opinion in the early modern period
By: edited by Jan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Elsa Strietman
Series: Drama and theatre in early modern Europe -- 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9789004240636; 9789004236998
Subjects: Theater; History; Congresses; Theater and society
Notes: Selected essays presented at the conference, Drama, Performance and Debate, held in Amsterdam, 29-31 May 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of a confraternity? a performance at the Puy de Notre-Dame in Amiens in 1473 / Katell Laveant; title: Fernandus Servatus and the poem Supra casum hispani regis by Petrus Martyr: drama and diplomacy in papal Rome under Alexander VI / Hartmut Beyer; title: Public space in France (1490-1520) / Jelle Koopmans; title: Theatricality, controversy, and publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530s / Arjan van Dixhoorn; title: Gnapheus and the confessionalization of the Lutheran Church / Verena Demoed; title: In the Antwerp entry of Charles V and his son Philip / Stijn Bussels; title: Seventeenth-century Dutch theatre / Hubert Meeus; title: Dutch Biblical rhetoricians' plays / Elsa Strietman; title: Unintended topicality in Lummenaeus a Marca's Carcer Babylonius (1610) / Ron J. Gruijters; title: Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin's Tragoediae Sacrae (1620): moral issues in the portrayal of Passions / Jean-Frederic Chevalier; title: 'Founded for the ears and eyes of the people': picturing the Amsterdam Schouwburg from 1637 / Peter G.F. Eversmann; title: 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; title: Mundus Dramaticus: a school drama and dramatization: Franciscus van den Enden / Frans-Willem Korsten; title: Ballet de la Paix staging a seventeenth-century theatre performance / Imre Besanger; title: Masks and skulls: towards an anatomy of drama in the seventeenth century / Helmar Schramm.