List of IllustrationsDrama, Performance, Debate. Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period: An IntroductionJan Bloemendal, Peter G.F. Eversmann and Elsa StrietmanCh. 1: Personal Expression of a Playwright or Public Discourse of a Confraternity? A Performance at the Puy de Notre-Dame in Amiens in 1473Katell Lavéant Ch. 2: Carlo and Marcellino Verardi's Fernandus servatus and the Poem Supra casum Hispani regis by Petrus Martyr: Drama and Diplomacy in Papal Rome under Alexander VIHartmut Beyer Ch. 3: The University out on the streets: Drama, Debate and Public Space in France (1490-1520) Jelle KoopmansCh. 4: Theatre Society in the Early Modern Low Countries: Theatricality, Controversy, and Publicity in Amsterdam in the 1530sArjan van Dixhoorn Ch.
5: Theatre in Court: The Heresy Trial Against the Playwright Gnapheus and the Confessionalization of the Lutheran ChurchVerena DemoedCh. 6: All About Eve: Genesis and Gender in a Fireworks Display in the Antwerp Entry of Charles V and his Son PhilipStijn Bussels Ch. 7: Staged Conversations: Topical Discourse in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Biblical Rhetoricians' PlaysElsa StrietmanCh. 8: The peasant as a mouthpiece of public opinion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch theatreHubert Meeus Ch. 9: Public Debate and Early Modern Drama: Intended or Unintended Topicality in Lummenaeus à Marca's Carcer Babylonius (1610)Ron J. GruijtersCh. 10: Contextualizing Nicolas Caussin's Tragoediae sacrae (1620): Moral issues in the portrayal of passionsJean-Frédéric ChevalierCh. 11: 'Founded for the Ears and Eyes of the People': Picturing the Amsterdam Schouwburg from 1637 Peter EversmannCh.
12: Staging the History of Amsterdam in Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel: A Non-Confessional Dramatic Contribution to the Narrative of the Dutch RevoltMarco Prandoni Ch. 13: Mundus Dramaticus: A School Drama and Dramatization - Franciscus van den Enden Frans-Willem KorstenCh. 14: Ballet de la Paix: Staging a Seventeenth-century Theatre PerformanceImre Bésanger Ch. 15: Masks and Skulls: Towards an Anatomy of Drama in the Seventeenth CenturyHelmar SchrammAbout the authorsBibliographyIndex of names.