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An extremely rare edition of a famous comedy

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon.
Aulularia van Plautus, dat is: Ware-nar met de pot. Gespeelt op d'Amsterdamsche Schouwburgh. Op nieuws oversien en verbetert.

Large engraving of Lecker, spying on Warenar on the graveyard on title, woodcut initial.

Large engraving of Lecker, spying on Warenar on the graveyard on title, woodcut initial.



Amsterdam, Jacobus Bouman, 1678. Sm. 8vo. Later blue wrappers. Large engraving of Lecker, spying on Warenar on the graveyard on title, woodcut initial. 55 (1) pp. (Collation: A-C8, D4).

Extremely rare corrected edition of Hooft's famous comedy Warenar. This comedy, first published in 1617, is based on Plautus's Aulularia. The main character Euclio finds a pot with gold and because of that he becomes a totally different person and starts to behave like a rich haggler who suspects everyone to want his treasure. A slave manages to filch the pot. In the end Euclio agrees with a marriage of his daughter Phaedria with a young neighbour who returned the pot with gold to him. Hooft's modern version of Plautus' comedy, in which he made some changes in the plot was very popular, performed many times in the Amsterdam Theatre and republished many times: at least eight times till 1700. Leendertz mentions our edition of which he knows only one copy to have been in the possession of De Vries, who re-published the Warenar in 1843. However, Leendertz didnt's succeed in tracing De Vries' or any other copy of this edition. STCN mentions only one copy of this edition in the University Library, Amsterdam, with the same collation as our copy, suggesting, however, that the copy is incomplete (fols. D5-8 should be missing). As the collation A-C8, D4 is identical with the collation of the 1670 edition of Ware-nar, also printed by Jan Bouman (Leendertz 81*), this is undoubtedly an error: our copy is complete and to all probability it belongs to a new issue with a new title (or page-for-page reprint) of the 1670 Bouman edition.
After the title (p. 1; verso blank), the preface (p. 3-5), and the names of the players (p. 6), the text follows on p. 7-55. On p. (56) is the epilogue by the printer to the reader, signed with 'Alomeen', exactly as in the 1670 Bouman edition (and the 1667 edition printed by Jacob Lescailje in Amsterdam; Leendertz 81).

Fair copy.- (Title soiled, engraving shaved; pp. 7-10 loose; some water staining throughout).
Leendertz 82.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Poetry  Theatre 

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