Description: Neo-Latin drama and theatre is a genre that was most often practised in early modern Europe. Humanists, Protestants and Roman Catholics wrote plays for the intellectual and moral education of students, and the entertainment of the audience. In this volume, a historical overview of Neo-Latin drama is given, as well as analyses of separate plays.
Review Quotes: "While some of the essays provide clear assessments of the state of research, this is implicit in the collection as a whole, which consummately captures the ''multiplicity of complex combinations'' available in the huge corpus of early modern Neo-Latin drama and provides timely encouragement and dependable foundations for further work."
Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1306-1308.
"The best general reference is Bloemendal and Norland (2013), which will lead readers to further secondary literature."
Stefan Tilg, University of Freiburg. In: The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin, "Comedy" (p. 99).
"The subject of Neo-Latin drama is particularly extensive, largely because the genre was international, cross-cultural and adapted to very different audiences throughout its history. The standard reference is now Bloemendal and Norland (2013)."
Gary R. Grund, Rhode Island College. In: The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin, "Tragedy" (p. 116).