CONTENTS.
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Introductory—Mediæval romance and lyric—The fourteenth century—Maerlant and other didactic poets—Dirk Potter—Fifteenth century—The Chambers of Rhetoric—Anna Bijns—Renaissance—Marnix and Coornhert—Spieghel and Roemer Visscher—The "Eglantine" or "Oude Kamer"—Hooft—Song-books—Brederoo and Starter—Vondel—Life and work—Criticism—Literature outside Amsterdam—The Hague: Huyghens—Zeeland: Jacob Cats—Camphuyzen—Stalpert van der Wiele—Followers of Vondel and Hooft—Latin prose and verse—Heinsius and Grotius—Dutch prose—Hooft—Brandt. |
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Introductory—Mediæval drama—Problem connected therewith—The Moralities, Histories, and Farces of the Chambers—Renaissance secular drama—The "Eglantine"—Coster and Rodenburg—Brederoo—Hooft—"Quarrel of the Players"—Coster's Academy—The "Amsterdamsche Kamer" and new theatre—Vondel—Development of his drama—Individual tragedies—Characterisation and criticism—Failure of the romantic and classical drama—Jan Vos's Aran en Titus—Later plays. |
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