Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero
Bredero was a seventeenth-century Dutch poet.
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Bredero (1585-1618) was a Dutch poet of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 't Kan verkeren' (Things can change) was Bredero's motto.[1]He was a member of the rederijkerskamer 'D'Eglentier' ('Eglentier Chamber of Rhetoric'). Under the leadership of Samuel Coster, some dissidents founded the Nederduytsche Academie. Bredero also followed Coster. In 1622 the 'Boertigh, amoreus, en aendachtig groot lied-boeck van G.A. Brederode, Amsteldammer' (Good, Amusing and Attentive Songbook by G.A. Brederode, Amsteldammer), appeared posthumously.[2] His best-known play is 'De Spaanschen Brabander' (The Spanish Brabander). It premiered in the Nederduytse Academie. Bredero's participation in the Academy guaranteed a large audience. Bredero sketched a picture of a city overrun by foreigners, and the decay that resulted.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne also uses this quote. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 24 januari 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Zie http://www.kb.nl/dichter-op-het-scherm/dichters-uit-het-verleden/gerbrand-adriaensz-bredero-1585-1618 (geraadpleegd mei 2014).
- ^ Mieke B. Smits-Veldt, "24 september 1617: Inwijding van de Nederduytse Academie", in: M.A. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen (hoofdred.), Nederlandse literatuur, een geschiedenis, Groningen: Nijhoff, 1993, p. 196-201, aldaar p. 200.