VWO / HAVO Centraal Examen (Netherlands) · Dutch Language and Literature
Historical Dutch Literature
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- Which Middle Dutch beast epic from the thirteenth century satirises human feudal society and the clergy through animal characters?
- Which famous Dutch Renaissance play by Joost van den Vondel is traditionally performed on New Year's Day at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam?
- Which literary circle of Dutch Renaissance humanists, poets and scholars gathered at Muiderslot castle during the seventeenth century?
- Which Enlightenment epistolary novel (briefroman) by Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken published in 1782 is regarded as the first modern Dutch novel?
- What core characteristic distinguishes Middle Dutch chivalric literature into Karelromans versus Arturromans?
- Which seventeenth-century Dutch poet and diplomat famously designed his own country estate Hofwijck and wrote poetry celebrating industrious Protestant virtue?
- Which nineteenth-century pseudonym did François Haverschmidt adopt to publish melancholic, romantic parody poems in Snikken en grimlachjes (1867)?
- Which literary genre is exemplified by Jacob van Maerlant's thirteenth-century encyclopedic works Der naturen bloeme and Spiegel historiael?
- Which literary term describes the Renaissance artistic principle of surpassing classical Greek and Roman models, moving beyond simple imitation (imitatio)?
- Which Dutch Golden Age comedy by Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero satirises Spanish pretensions and Amsterdam swindlers through the character Jerolimo?
- Which female medieval mystic from Brabant composed visionary strophic poems and letters describing mystical love ('Minne') in thirteenth-century Dutch?
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