Transnational Encounters in Early Modern Drama, 1450-1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72427-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe

In this volume you will find contributions on transnational European drama of the early modern period, featuring a range of innovative approaches. The volume, for the first time, covers dramas and theatre plays in Latin, English, French, Polish, Dutch, and Spanish. A second innovation is its combination of literary historical research and digital humanities. The topics range from court ballets to the reception of Seneca, from visual evidence of commedia dell’arte performances to the use of onomastics to trace connections between plays, and from TEI-tagging to the creation of Wikidata pages and digital networks on the role of the scheming slave in ancient and early modern Europe.

Contributors include: Michal Bajer and Piotr Urbanski, Radhika Koul, Linda Simonis, Nigel Smith, Gabriela Villanueva Noriega, Barbara Fuchs, Thom Pritchard, M.A. Katritzky, Justyna Lukaszewska-Haberkowa, Ioana Galleron, Neven Jovanovic, Julia Beine, James A. Parente, Jr.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wouters, Dinah

Bloemendal, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal

Part 1 Canonicity and Transnational Poetics

1 The Strongest Link of the Thematic Series?

Theatrical Rewritings of the Story of Saint Polyeuctus and the Status of a ‘Great Author’ in the Early Modern Literary Canon Michal Bajer and Piotr Urbanski

2 Taking Critical Guidance: Classical Drama as Transnational Drama Radhika Koul

3 ‘Trojan Women’ in Early Modern Drama

Gender, Politics and Emotions in Seneca’s Troades, Garnier’s La Troade, Opitz’ Trojanerinnen and Racine’s Andromaque Linda Simonis

4 The Human Passion Machine: The Amsterdam Society Nil volentibus arduum and the Renewal of Theatre Nigel Smith

5 Spanish Books, Wit and Entertainment in the English Civil War Gabriela Villanueva Noriega

Part 2 The Interdisciplinary Transnational: Literature and Performance, News, and Arts

6 A Transnational Approach to Gender in the Hispanic Comedia Barbara Fuchs

7 ‘Tragedies that are Acted Upon the Theatre of this World’: News and Violence Upon the Stuart Stage During the Thirty Years War Thom Pritchard

8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Transnational Performers: Expanding the Visual Record M.A. Katritzky

9 Understanding the performance of the Ballet des Polonais Justyna Lukaszewska-Haberkowa

Part 3 Transnational Connections Through Digital Data and Networks

10 Naming Potiphar’s Wife in Early Modern Drama: The Unnamed Woman Becomes the Woman with the Many Names Dinah Wouters

11 Free the Drama! A Call for Rethinking Editorial Practices of (European) Theatrical Texts Ioana Galleron

12 A Wikidata Description of a Neo-Latin Play: Modelling Joannes Luccarus’s Stanislaus Kostka drama sacrum Neven Jovanovic

13 How to Figure out a Schemer: Tracing Types of Roman Comedy in Classical Receptions through Digital Methods Julia Jennifer Beine

Epilogue: Transnational Drama within and beyond Europe: Conclusion and a Look Ahead James A. Parente Jr.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dinah Wouters (Ph.D. 2019), is a scholar of Latin literature and assistant professor in religious studies at Utrecht University. Her research spans medieval allegorical literature and early modern biblical drama. Her current project focuses on classical reception and its intersections with colonialism.

Jan Bloemendal (Ph.D. 1997), is a senior researcher of Neo-Latin at the Huygens Institute. He specialises in Erasmus and Neo-Latin drama. He was co-editor of Neo-Latin Drama in Early Modern Europe (2013) and Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2014).