The Economic Plays of Cornelis Everaert of Bruges: The Drama of Virtuous Commerce and the Decline of an Early Modern Economy

Cornelis Everaert (1480-1556) was a playwright in the tradition maintained by the Chambers of Rhetoric (rederijkerskamers) of the Low Countries. He also created the largest known body of work by a single author to come from this tradition (thirty-five plays across nearly thirty years), and the author of most of the surviving plays from this area and period that deal with economic themes. My original contribution to research on this body of work – as well as our knowledge of witness accounts of the early Renaissance economy in northern Europe – is a conception of Everaert’s eight "economic play... Mehr ...