In 1883 sluit Gerrit Kalff zijn monumentale studie Het lied in de middeleeuwen af met een bespreking van wat hij noemt de 'verdere lotgevallen der oude liederen'. Hij wil laten zien dat de laatmiddeleeuwse liederen zoals ...

The `Aenleidinge ter Nederduitsche dichtkunste’ of Joost van den Vondel is a prose introduction to a new edition of his Poëzy (1650), in which Vondel writes down advices for the way arriving poets can qualify themselves ...

n this paper we explore the possibility of analysing style in literature in a scientifically sound manner, one that may justifiably claim more than subjective validity for the analyses produced. In our view, it is especially ...

Compared to other authors that played an important role during the early stages of Dutch renaissance drama, Jacob Duym received relatively little attention. In this article his life and work during his Leiden years (1586-1608) ...

In this paper I discuss the way in which Peter Verhelst's novel Tongkat affects the attitude of its reader. Indirectly, the novel provides the reader with various reading instructions. At the same time though, the text ...

Recently, Anna S. de Haas published a new edition of Pieter Langendijk's comedy Het wederzijds huwelijksbedrog. Although her commentary is very elucidating, a few problems remained unsolved, especially concerning the (false) ...

This article shows that in the course of time lexicologists and grammarians have assigned different interpretations of function and meaning to the Dutch words dan and want in historical texts. These interpretations mostly ...