Project

Radical Revenge? Revenge tragedy and providential thinking in the Dutch Republic 1638-1678

Code
01D07818
Duration
01 October 2018 → 31 January 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Early modern literature
    • Literatures in Dutch
    • Literary criticism
Keywords
Dutch Republic providentialism subject formation Aristotelian theatre French-classicist theatre Nil Volentibus Arduum Revenge tragedy
 
Project description

Radical Revenge? examines the relationship between subject formation and providentialism in Aristotelian tragedies, revenge tragedies and French-classicist tragedies in the Dutch Republic between 1638 and 1678. An attentive reading of the corpus from this cultural-historical perspective should lead to a better understanding of the peculiar position which the revenge tragedy occupies in this misunderstood development phase of Dutch drama.