Behind the Dikes: Renaissance Theatre in The Netherlands

<p>Episode 84:</p><p>Given the destruction of the thirty years war moving backwards and forwards across the Germanic and Flemish states of Europe between 1618 and 1648 it is a wonder that any art could flourish at all but in the Netherlands, there was something of an opposite effect.</p><p>A word on the lack of examples from the Netherlands in this period and a reminder of the lasting influence of ‘Everyman’.</p><p>The political and religious landscape that enables the Dutch Golden Age, a period of trade and expansion.</p><p>The slow emergence of Dutch theatre from the medieval period.</p><p>The Rhetoricians and their influence.</p><p>The annual carnival and the drama competition.</p><p>The life and work of Pieter Hooft</p><p>The farces and comedies of G A Brendero</p><p>The outline plot of ‘The Farce of the Cow’.</p><p>Definitions of theatrical genres by publisher Cornelis van der Plasse</p><p>Farce used to comment on the immigration of Germanic people into the Netherlands.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Moffenkluchten sub-genre.</p><p>Influences from England and Southern Europe</p><p>The life and work of Joost Van Der Vondel.</p><p>Vondel’s historical play and celebration of the city of Amsterdam ‘Gysbreght van Aemstel’.</p><p>Vondel’s religious semi-tragic plays, including ‘Jeptha, or the Promised Sacrifice’ and ‘Lucifer’</p><p>The decline of the Rhetoricians.</p><p>The Amsterdam Playhouse.</p><p>Support the podcast at:</p><p><a href="http://www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com/" target="_blank">www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ko-fi.com/thoetp" target="_blank">www.ko-fi.com/thoetp</a></p><p><a href="http://www.patreon.com/thoetp" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/thoetp</a></p><br/><br/>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: <br/><br/>Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy