Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Neo-Latin Literature, Utrecht University, is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and professor by special appointment of Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Amsterdam.Frans-Willem Korsten, Ph.D. (1998) in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam University, is professor by special appointment of Literature and Society at the Erasmus School for History Culture and Communication, and works at the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (department of Film and Literary Studies).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Vondel’s Dramas: A Chronological SurveyEddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen Chapter 2Vondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the CenturiesRiet Schenkeveld-van der DussenChapter 3 Vondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and PastFrans-Willem Korsten Part I – Vondel’s Life, Works and TimesChapter 4Vondel’s LifeMieke B. Smits-Veldt and Marijke Spies Chapter 5Vondel’s ReligionJudith PollmannChapter 6Vondel and AmsterdamEddy Grootes Chapter 7 Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and BodyBettina NoakChapter 8Vondel’s Theatre and MusicLouis Peter Grijp and Jan BloemendalChapter 9Vondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in PerformanceMieke B. Smits-Veldt Chapter 10 Vondel’s Reception AbroadGuillaume van Gemert Part II – Approaches and DramasChapter 11 New Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish QuestionJürgen Pieters Chapter 12 Politics and Aesthetics – Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625)Nina GeerdinkChapter 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 16Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays (1640)Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten Chapter 17The Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646)James A. Parente Jr. and Jan Bloemendal Chapter 18Deconstruction – 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 20Gender 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 25Philosophy – Noah (1667) about God and NatureWiep van Bunge Works CitedPart IVBibliography of Vondel’s dramas (1850–2008)Jan Bloemendal About the authorsIndices

“[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.

Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Neo-Latin Literature, Utrecht University, is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and professor by special appointment of Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Amsterdam.Frans-Willem Korsten, Ph.D. (1998) in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam University, is professor by special appointment of Literature and Society at the Erasmus School for History Culture and Communication, and works at the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (department of Film and Literary Studies).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Vondel’s Dramas: A Chronological SurveyEddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen Chapter 2Vondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the CenturiesRiet Schenkeveld-van der DussenChapter 3 Vondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and PastFrans-Willem Korsten Part I – Vondel’s Life, Works and TimesChapter 4Vondel’s LifeMieke B. Smits-Veldt and Marijke Spies Chapter 5Vondel’s ReligionJudith PollmannChapter 6Vondel and AmsterdamEddy Grootes Chapter 7 Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and BodyBettina NoakChapter 8Vondel’s Theatre and MusicLouis Peter Grijp and Jan BloemendalChapter 9Vondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in PerformanceMieke B. Smits-Veldt Chapter 10 Vondel’s Reception AbroadGuillaume van Gemert Part II – Approaches and DramasChapter 11 New Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish QuestionJürgen Pieters Chapter 12 Politics and Aesthetics – Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625)Nina GeerdinkChapter 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 16Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays (1640)Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten Chapter 17The Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646)James A. Parente Jr. and Jan Bloemendal Chapter 18Deconstruction – 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 20Gender 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 25Philosophy – Noah (1667) about God and NatureWiep van Bunge Works CitedPart IVBibliography of Vondel’s dramas (1850–2008)Jan Bloemendal About the authorsIndices

“[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.

Jan Bloemendal, Ph.D. (1997) in Neo-Latin Literature, Utrecht University, is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and professor by special appointment of Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Amsterdam.Frans-Willem Korsten, Ph.D. (1998) in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam University, is professor by special appointment of Literature and Society at the Erasmus School for History Culture and Communication, and works at the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (department of Film and Literary Studies).

• IntroductionChapter 1 Vondel’s Dramas: A Chronological SurveyEddy Grootes and Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen Chapter 2Vondel’s Works for the Stage Read and Studied Over the CenturiesRiet Schenkeveld-van der DussenChapter 3 Vondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Present and PastFrans-Willem Korsten Part I – Vondel’s Life, Works and TimesChapter 4Vondel’s LifeMieke B. Smits-Veldt and Marijke Spies Chapter 5Vondel’s ReligionJudith PollmannChapter 6Vondel and AmsterdamEddy Grootes Chapter 7 Vondel as a Dramatist: The Representation of Language and BodyBettina NoakChapter 8Vondel’s Theatre and MusicLouis Peter Grijp and Jan BloemendalChapter 9Vondel’s Dramas: Their Afterlife in PerformanceMieke B. Smits-Veldt Chapter 10 Vondel’s Reception AbroadGuillaume van Gemert Part II – Approaches and DramasChapter 11 New Historicism – Hierusalem verwoest (1620) and the Jewish QuestionJürgen Pieters Chapter 12 Politics and Aesthetics – Decoding Allegory in Palamedes (1625)Nina GeerdinkChapter 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 16Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays (1640)Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten Chapter 17The Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646)James A. Parente Jr. and Jan Bloemendal Chapter 18Deconstruction – 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 20Gender 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 25Philosophy – Noah (1667) about God and NatureWiep van Bunge Works CitedPart IVBibliography of Vondel’s dramas (1850–2008)Jan Bloemendal About the authorsIndices

“[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.