'Instructie hoedanich 't spel van de H. Genoveva dient vertoont te worden' University of Antwerp
One of the seventeenth-century manuscripts of the chamber of rhetoric De Goudbloem from Sint-Niklaas, is found to contain an exceptional version of the play De heylighe Genoveva (1664), as it includes both a sketch of the stage and specific stage directions for every individual scene. There is no other known early modern text from the Dutch language area that is accompanied with stage directions. The objective of this contribution is twofold. I ...