Altniederländische Schaubühne: abele Spelen ende Sotternien
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Altniederländische Schaubühne: abele Spelen ende Sotternien
- Andere titel:
- Horae Belgicae. Studio atque opera Henrici Hoffmann Fallerlebensis. Pars sexta.
- Jaar:
- 1838
- URL:
- https://books.google.be/books?vid=GENT900000029062&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books
https://books.google.be/books?id=0-BlAAAAcAAJ Google Books - Onderwerp:
- Middle Ages (500-1400)
19th Century (1801-1900)
Theater history
Comedy
Play (theater)
Poetry
Flanders (Belgium)
Netherlands - Taal:
- Meerdere talen
- Uitgever:
- Breslau Aderholz 1838
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 H.04.045 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- lii-264 pages red edges, title page in red and black ink
- Reeks:
- Horae Belgicae Vol.6
- Nota:
- The middle age 'abele spelen' are the oldest plays of a worldly, non-religious nature known in the Dutch language, and among the oldest known in West-European theatre.
An abel game takes place in high circles and the problems are important, a matter of life and death, while the sotternie takes place in a low environment, with 'small-scale', 'vulgar' problems. The sotternie was popular in nature, and therefore often on the rough side. Verbal and physical violence were not avoided. A well-known theme was that of the bossy wife and the dorky husband. The sotternie served as a counterbalance to the bare abel game and can be compared to the phenomenon of 'comic relief' as occurs in the tragedies of William Shakespeare, whereby a comic episode is slowed down somewhat after a period of tension.
Hoffmann was a German patriotic poet, philologist, and literary historian whose poem “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles” was adopted as the German national anthem after World War I. His uncomplicated verses, expressing his deep love of country, were of great significance to the German student movement. Hoffmann's particular interest was the Old Dutch language. He made a total of eight trips to Holland and Flanders, where he became the founder of Dutch philology and received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University. Such a journey following his studies in Bonn is described in the introduction to his collection of Old Dutch songs, which he published thirty years later under the title Loverkens in the Horae Belgicae series and dedicated to the University of Göttingen. - Permalink:
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