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portada Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625: 1400-1625
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2007
Language
English
Pages
332
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24.8 x 16.6 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.74 kg.
ISBN
2503517005
ISBN13
9782503517001
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Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625: 1400-1625

Strietman, Elsa ; Happe, Peter (Author) · Brepols Publishers · Hardcover

Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625: 1400-1625 - Strietman, Elsa ; Happe, Peter

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Synopsis "Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625: 1400-1625"

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.

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