With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
'Hy dwong het volk door klucht te luistren naar hun plichten' ('With farce he urged people to remember their duties'). With this verse the seventeenth-century playwright Jan Vos honoured Bredero, whose theatre clearly focused on entertainment, while at the same time it urged the audience into social criticism. This verse concisely shows how seventeenth-century theatre functioned. Whereas in the sixteenth century, rhetoricians performed didactic ...