'With his 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 his farce he urged people to remember their duties'). With this verse the seventeenth-century playwright Jan Vos honoured Bredero, whose theatre was clearly focused on entertainment, while at the same time urging the audience into social criticism. This verse shows concisely how seventeenth-century theatre functioned in contrast to the sixteenth-century didactic theatre of the ...