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Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 (Hardcover)
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Urban Theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 (Hardcover)
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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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