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Bredero als model voor maatschappijkritiek in het zeventiende-eeuwse toneel? University of Antwerp
'We leeven in een bedurve eeuw' University of Antwerp
'All these things one has to endure from these Germans': German stage characters as means to criticize changing social positions in seventeenth-century Amsterdam University of Antwerp
In seventeenth-century Dutch theatre many stereotypical German characters appeared on the stage. Uncouth, ridiculous Germans speaking Dutch/German pidgin became a stereotypical joke in comic theatre, and this caricature enhanced the reception and entertainment value of a play. Moreover, playwrights also criticized or denounced moffen (Krauts) in Amsterdam as welfare-grabbers or social-climbers. Criticizing Germans was relatively safe for a ...
Kroniek, Ik Jan Smeken University of Antwerp
'De eenen kijvage is soo ras niet gedaen, of de andere die vanght weer aen' University of Antwerp
'Dol-woest-breyn-herssenloose edelen en grillighe aepenkueren': kritiek op Spanje en op de literaire conventies van de 'comedia' in Liefdens Behendicheyt (1638) van Frederico Cornelio De Conincq University of Antwerp
Between 1635 and 1638 the Antwerp playwright Frederico Cornelio De Conincq wrote plays inspired by the Spanish comedia. His play Liefdens Behendicheyt (1638) expresses fundamental criticism against Spanish culture. De Conincq ridicules and parodies the Spanish comedia, the Spanish aristocracy and the entire Spanish culture, in an environment controlled by the Spanish.