Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) (original) (raw)
“[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.
Introduction
Chapter 1
Vondel’s Dramas: A Chronological Survey
Eddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen
Chapter 2
Vondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the Centuries
Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen
Chapter 3
Vondel’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
Vondel 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
Vondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in Performance
Mieke B. Smits-Veldt
Chapter 10
Vondel’s Reception Abroad
Guillaume van Gemert
Part II – Approaches and Dramas
Chapter 11
New Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish Question
Jürgen Pieters
Chapter 12
Politics 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
Intertextuality – Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637)
Marco Prandoni
Chapter 15
Dramaturgy – Staging Problems in Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637)
Peter G.F. Eversmann
Chapter 16
Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays (1640)
Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten
Chapter 17
The 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
Religion and Politics – Lucifer (1654) and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674)
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Helmer Helmers
Chapter 20
Gender Studies – Emotions in Jeptha (1659)
Kristine Steenbergh
Chapter 21
Close Reading and Theory – The David Plays (1660)
Frans-Willem Korsten
Chapter 22
Psychoanalysis – Law, Theatre and Violence in Samson (1660)
Yasco Horsman
Chapter 23
Law and Literature – Batavische gebroeders (1663)
Jeanne Gaakeer
Chapter 24
New Philology – Variants in Adam in ballingschap (1664)
Jan Bloemendal
Chapter 25
Philosophy – 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