‘I, who used to serve as Jupiter’s lightning on earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), providentially assigned stadtholders and the politics of rational deception
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- Tom Laureys (UGent)
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- This article aims to show that Geeraerdt Brandt's popular revenge tragedy De veinzende Torquatus (1645) engages with the political debates concerning the rightful succession of monarchs based on primogeniture, and - be it in a grotesque, even parodic way - the Calvinistic belief that the Dutch stadtholders were God's providential instruments, assigned to guide His chosen people. Subsequently, I show that the play offers a confrontation between two conflicting conceptions of power. The play's eponymous protagonist holds what I call an intellectual (idealistic) conception of power, in which man's rational faculty, including his capacity for rational deception, is all-decisive. This vision, though, clashes with the more physical (materialistic) conceptualization of power which Torquatus's antagonist Noron upholds.
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- Geeraerdt Brandt, De veinzende Torquatus, Dutch stadtholderate, primogeniture, Hugo Grotius, natural law
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8614978
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- Laureys, Tom. “’I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational Deception.” DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, pp. 21–33, doi:10.1080/03096564.2019.1615761.
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- Laureys, T. (2021). ’I, who used to serve as Jupiter’s lightning on earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), providentially assigned stadtholders and the politics of rational deception. DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES, 45(1), 21–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2019.1615761
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- Laureys, Tom. 2021. “’I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational Deception.” DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES 45 (1): 21–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2019.1615761.
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- Laureys, Tom. 2021. “’I, Who Used to Serve as Jupiter’s Lightning on Earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), Providentially Assigned Stadtholders and the Politics of Rational Deception.” DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES 45 (1): 21–33. doi:10.1080/03096564.2019.1615761.
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- 1.Laureys T. ’I, who used to serve as Jupiter’s lightning on earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), providentially assigned stadtholders and the politics of rational deception. DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES. 2021;45(1):21–33.
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- [1]T. Laureys, “’I, who used to serve as Jupiter’s lightning on earth’ : Geeraerdt Brandt’s De Veinzende Torquatus (1645), providentially assigned stadtholders and the politics of rational deception,” DUTCH CROSSING-JOURNAL OF LOW COUNTRIES STUDIES, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 21–33, 2021.
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