Code
01D07818
Duration
01 October 2018 → 31 January 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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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.