Books, Beads and Bitterness

Making Sense of Gifts in Two Table Plays by Cornelis Everaert

Bibliographic Data

ID20061032
AuthorsBart Ramakers (Centre de Recherches Historiques, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages141-170
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueDiscovering the riches of the word (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004290396_008
OpenAlexW884436129
ISBN9789004290396
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

Like all other authors in their time, historical playwrights were readers. They did not compose their plays ex nihilo, but were inspired by, and made use of, what they had read or what had been read to them, and by what they had seen or otherwise perceived. Then, like now, being literate entailed more than just being able to read and write. Literacy also meant the ability to understand other forms of communication, including visual and body language-and, for that matter, drama. It was especially the practice of this genre that required authors not only to read and write, but also to speak, to listen and to see, with which is meant not just the ability to use the senses per se, but to use them coherently, for whatever purpose, intellectual or otherwise. Of course, the same applies to viewers or spectators. They, too, had to be literate in all the aforementioned ways

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