De industrie van het vertalen voor de Amsterdamse Schouwburg (1638-1672)

In times of Golden Age Amsterdam Spanish theatre made up a significant part of the City Theatre Hall’s repertoire. After a successful première, many of these plays remained in the programming plans of the Schouwburg for several following years and became ‘blockbusters’ in the repertoire. The present paper examines the cultural industry around the Schouwburg that was responsible for the introduction and production of these plays. The ONSTAGE database enables quantifying the popularity of the Spanish translations by studying their frequency of performance and relative figures of audience. In ord... Mehr ...