Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. 1. Republican baroque: a thunderclap, a city hall and two executions 11
5. 2. The dramatic potential in history: Rome and the Republic – Grevius, Vondel, Knüpfer, and Job 41
6. 3. The cruel death of worlds and political incompatibility – the brothers De Witt 65
7. 4. A happy split of worlds or the comedic sublime – Frans Hals 83
8. 5. The seas or the world as scene – Focquenbroch and Grotius 103
9. 6. Not a frame but a lens: the touch of knowledge – Rumphius, Vossius, Spinoza 125
10. 7. Public theater, collective drama and the new – Van den Enden and Huygens 149
11. 8. Interrupting time for the sake of division: history and the tableau vivant – Rembrandt (Abraham and Isaac), Quast, Vondel, and Vos 173
12. List of illustrations 197
13. Bibliography 201
14. Index 219
15. Index of names 227