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Document Details : Title: W.A.P. Smits 'Nederlandse Renaissance-toneel' en de bestudering van de Noord-Nederlandse Neolatijnse tragedie in de laatste dertig jaar Author(s): BLOEMENDAL, Jan Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Date: 2002 Pages: 9-13 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.44.1.370 Abstract : W.A.P. Smit’s article on the problems and tasks of literary history concerning early modern Netherlandish drama has had little influence on the research into Neo-Latin tragedy. This is surprising, since one of the desiderata he expressed was the analysis of Latin plays in order to assess their influence on Dutch drama. A recent edition of Daniel Heinsius, Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia [The Prince of Orange, or the wounding of Liberty, 1602] is the only one in which Smit’s ideas, partly via Smits-Veldt’s doctoral thesis on Samuel Coster, have been discussed. The second part of the present paper argues for a more contextual approach of drama than Smit’s formal analysis allows for. |
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