Comic Drama in the Low Countries, C.1450-1560

Comic Drama in the Low Countries, C.1450-1560
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Publisher : DS Brewer
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781843842910
ISBN-13 : 1843842912
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Book Synopsis Comic Drama in the Low Countries, C.1450-1560 by : Ben Parsons

Download or read book Comic Drama in the Low Countries, C.1450-1560 written by Ben Parsons and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Middle Ages and early modern period, a dramatic culture of astonishing vitality developed in the Low Countries. Owing to the activities of organizations known as rederijkerskamers, or "chambers of rhetoric", dramas became a central aspect of public life in the cities of the Netherlands. The comedies produced by these groups are particularly interesting. Drawing their forms and narratives from folklore and popular ritual, and entertaining in their own right, they also bring together a range of important concerns; they respond directly to some of the key developments in the period, reflecting the political and religious turmoil of the Reformation and Dutch Revolt, the emergence of humanism, and the appearance of an early capitalist economy. This collection brings together the original Middle Dutch text of ten of these comic plays, with facing translation into modern English. The selection is divided evenly between formal stage-plays and monologues, and provides a representation of the full range of rederijker drama, from the sophisticated Farce of the Fisherman, with its sly undermining of audience expectation, to the hearty scatology of A Mock-Sermon on Saint Nobody, and the grim gallows humor of The Farce of the Beggar. An introduction and notes place the plays in their context and elucidate difficulties of interpretation." --from back cover.


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