Leerschool der liefde. Burgerlijk drama en de Amsterdamse Schouwburg 1738-1788. Geschiedenis, repertoire, rece...
In Dutch with English summary.Een gedegen beschrijving van het burgerlijk drama in Nederland, een nieuw dramagenre dat zich hier ontwikkelde vanaf de vroege 18e eeuw uit en naast het reeds bestaande classicistische blij- en treurspel. Mattheij beschrijft de introductie van het burgerlijk ... More info
Licht als leidraad. Leven en werk van Frits Lensvelt (1886-1945). Met een voorwoord van Frans Leidelmeijer
Published on the occasion of two exhibitions (in Amsterdam and in Assen) on the life and works of the versatile and influential Dutch designer Frits Lensvelt. More info
Little Rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen, with Little Photos by Harald Paetz.
This beautiful facsimile volume represents the first ever printing of Andersen`s Fotograferede Bornegrupper in English. This book is a collaboration between Andersen, who wrote the verse, and the famous early Danish photographer Harald Paetz. The illustrations in the book are albumen prints of posed... More info
Georgius Macropedius` Asotus. Een Neolatijns drama over de Verloren Zoon door Joris van Lanckvelt. Tekst met i...
With a summary in English. The first of Macropedius` writings is the Asotus (1537), a biblical drama of the Prodigal Son. Numerous passages, derived from Erasmus` adaptation of the Vulgata (1516) prove that the author has revised a first concept (1507-1510) of this drama. More info
Fontes Hymnodiae Neerlandicae impressi 1539-1700. De melodieën van het Nederlandstalig geestelijk lied 1539-17...
Describes some 800 Dutch-language sacred songbooks with noted music 1539-1700 coming from over 200 libraries, including 364 unica. Full transcriptions, notes, census of copies, etc.; three indexes. More info
Georgius Macropedius, Two Comedies: Rebelles (The Rebels) - Bassarus. Edited and translated from the Latin, wi...
First English translation of any of Macropedius` plays. The original Latin version facing the English translation. More info
Leonhard Culmann. A literary Biography and an Edition of five Plays, as a Contribution to the Study of Drama i...
The five German plays by Leonhard Culmann (c. 1500-1561), originally published between 1539 and 1547, are typical in quality and structure for much of the dramatic production of the time. This is a text-edition of same, preceded by an extensive biography and followed by a voluminous apparatus of not... More info
Pseudomagia. A Neo-Latin Drama by William Mewe. With a Note on the Latin by J.W. Binns.
Follows the Manuscript (MS. R.17.10) in Trinity College, Cambridge. This unpublished play, performed at Emmanuel College probably around 1626, is a late example of a Prodigal Son play. More info