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Document Details : Title: Een Antwerpse brief aan Symmachus. Analyse van het 'Totten goetwillighen leser' in de Antwerpse Spelen van Sinne (1562) Author(s): RYCKAERT, R. Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 46 Issue: 1 Date: 2004 Pages: 1-32 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.46.1.504892 Abstract : The present article proposes an analysis of the Totten goetwillighen Leser [To the willing Reader], the first prose preliminary of the Antwerp Spelen van sinne [Moralities] from 1562. This publication by the Royal Printer Willem Silvius – the most voluminous sixteenthcentury miscellany of rhetoricians’ drama – comprises the majority of the plays staged the year before at the seventh and last contest of the Brabant landjuweel. In his introduction the editor discusses the staging of Greek and Roman drama and glorifies the theatrical action of the chambers of rhetoric in the Low Countries. I focus on the texts that underpin this historical sketch, as well as on the hidden agenda of the author, who is assumed to be Willem van Haecht, the artistic director of the organizing chamber De Violieren. |
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