Jan Bloemendal is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, and secretary to the Erasmi Opera Omnia. He studied classics, Dutch literature and theology. He was a co-editor of Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2014) and the editor of G.J. Vossius, Poeticarum institutionum libri tres (2010). From 2006 to 2012 he was Professor by special appointment of Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include Neo-Latin and vernacular drama, transnationalism in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, and Erasmus.In 2019, he received a grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a project 'TransLatin' on the transnational aspects of Neo-Latin drama from the Low Countries.
This volume introduces the Dutch seventeenth-century playwright Joost van den Vondel and offers s... more This volume introduces the Dutch seventeenth-century playwright Joost van den Vondel and offers several approaches to his work
Edition of Latin text, English translation, commentary and introduction of the Latin tragedy Auri... more Edition of Latin text, English translation, commentary and introduction of the Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (William of Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602) by Daniel Heinsius, published at Brill. This is the accepted copy.
Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investig... more Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and several other vernacular tragedians, together with consideration of neo-Latin dramas by Jesuits and other playwrights. To what extent were similar themes, plots, structures and styles elaborated? How is difference as well as similarity to be accounted for? European drama is beginning to be considered outside of the singular vernacular frameworks in which it has been largely confined (as instanced in the conferences and volumes of essays held in the Universities of Munich and Berlin 2010-12), but up-to-date secondary material is sparse and difficult to obtain. This volume intends to help remedy that deficit by addressing the drama in a full political, religious, legal and social context, and by considering the plays as interventions in those contexts.
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