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Gary K. Waite - Reformers On Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556 - 9780802044570 - V9780802044570
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Reformers On Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556

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Description for Reformers On Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556 hardcover. Examines the social and religious messages of plays presented across the Low Countries, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise and argues that dramatists reshaped reform ideas to accommodate their own concerns. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, map. BIC Classification: AS; DD; HBTB; HRAX; HRC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 719.

During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of the chambers saw themselves not only as entertainers, but as religious and cultural leaders, and on the strength of this sense of mission became the most influential performers of vernacular drama in the Low Countries. Gary Waite examines the social and religious messages of the plays presented, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise.

Presenting an overview of some eighty surviving scripts from across the Low Countries, Waite considers the culture ... Read more

Offering perspectives gleaned from primary material that is available only in sixteenth-century Dutch, this study adds significantly to existing scholarship on the local ramifications of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802044570
SKU
V9780802044570
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Gary K. Waite
Gary K. Waite is a professor in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

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