The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands

Publications

Jan Bloemendal (ed.), Daniel Heinsius, Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (1602) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020) Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, 10.

Jan Bloemendal and seminar group RUB (eds), Johannes Reuchlin’s Scaenica progymnasmata or Henno (1498) and Jacob Spiegel’s Commentary (1512): Neo-Latin Comedy and Transnational Learning (Trier: WVT, 2024) Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 116.

Jan Bloemendal (ed.), ‘Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama’, special issue of Medievalia & Humanistica, 48 (2023).

Jan Bloemendal, ‘Introduction: Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama’, Medievalia & Humanistica, 48 (2023), pp. 1-18.

Jan Bloemendal, Neo-Latin Drama in Europe and Beyond (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025) Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period.

Jan Bloemendal, ‘Biblical Stories on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage: A Transnational Approach’, Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, 11 (2024), pp. 147–172.

Jan Bloemendal, ‘New Perspectives on Neo-Latin Drama: From Philology to Digital Humanities’, in Wolfgang Kofler, Simon Wirthensohn and Stefan Zathammer (eds), Joseph Resch als Bühnenautor: Die Brixner Schuldramen und ihr Kontext (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2024) NeoLatina, 31, pp. 225–39.

Jan Bloemendal, ‘Neo-Latin Drama between Nationality and Transnationality’, in Cornelis van der Haven a.o. (eds), Literature Without Frontiers: Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024) Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 346, pp. 112-44.

Jan Bloemendal, ‘The First Lyrical Choral Ode of Heinsius’s Herodes infanticida (1632) and the Classics’, in Jeanine De Landtsheer, Fabio Della Schiava and Toon Van Houdt (eds), Dulces ante omnia Musae: Essays on Neo-Latin Poetry in Honour of Dirk Sacré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. 299–310.

Jan Bloemendal, ‘The Hague and Antwerp, 1529: Gnapheus’ Acolastus and the Formation of European Neo-Latin Drama’, in Warren Boutcher a.o. (eds), TextDiveGlobal, vol. 1 Works (in preparation).

Andrea Peverelli, Marieke van Erp and Jan Bloemendal, ‘Tracking Textual Similarities in Neo-Latin Drama Networks’, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC, 2022, pp. 5295–5303.

Andrea Peverelli, Marieke van Erp and Jan Bloemendal, ‘The Process of Imitatio Through Stylometric Analysis: the Case of Terence’s Eunuchus, CHR 2022: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 12 – 14, 2022, Antwerp, 2022, pp. 337–354.

Andrea Peverelli, ‘A Stylometric and Network Analysis of a Multi-lingual Early Modern Drama Corpus’, in Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (eds), TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands: Qualitative and Computational Analyses (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2026).

Andrea Peverelli, Authorial Framework and the Problem of Style through a Computational Analysis of Neo-Latin Drama. PhD thesis Utrecht University 2025.

Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (eds), Transnational Encounters in Early Modern Drama, 1450–1750 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025) Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, 13.

Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (eds), TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands: Qualitative and Computational Analyses (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2026).

Dinah Wouters, ‘Comoedia Sacra and Comoedia Nueva: Defending Innovation in Comedy from the Northern Humanists to Lope de Vega’, in Jan Bloemendal (ed.), Transnational Aspects of Early Modern Drama, special issue of Medievalia & Humanistica 48 (2023), pp. 19–39.

Wouters, Dinah, ‘Revisiting Potiphar’s Wife: A European Perspective on a Character in Early Modern Drama’, Medievalia et Humanistica, 47 (2022), pp. 81–106.

Dinah Wouters, ‘The Circulation of Biblical Comedies in Print: Gnapheus, Crocus, and Macropedius’, in Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (eds), TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands: Qualitative and Computational Analyses (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2026).

Dinah Wouters, ‘A Diachronic Analysis of Plot in Plays about the Egyptian Joseph (1500-1700)’, in Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (eds), TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands: Qualitative and Computational Analyses (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2026).

Dinah Wouters, ‘The Biblical History Play: Turning Seventeenth-Century Joseph Plays into Political Drama’, Journal of the Bible and its Reception 11 (2024), pp. 245–263.

Dinah Wouters, ‘Trenchinium, 1650: From Humanist to Jesuit Biblical Comedy’, in Warren Boutcher a.o. (eds), TextDiveGlobal, vol. 1: Works (in preparation).