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Vi coactus

KEMP, Jacobus.
Klucht van de bedrogen Smith, Gespeelt op d'Amsterdamsche Schouwburgh, op het spreeckwoort Die eens verliest sijn faem en eer die krijghtse noyt en selden weer.

Woodcut printer's device ('Perseveranter') on title-page, woodcut initial.

Woodcut printer's device ('Perseveranter') on title-page, woodcut initial.

Woodcut printer's device ('Perseveranter') on title-page, woodcut initial.



Amsterdam, Jacob Lescaille, 1661. 4to. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. Woodcut printer's device ('Perseveranter') on title-page, woodcut initial. (16) pp.

One of only 2 plays written by the Amsterdam actor Jacobus Kemp and the only one to be published during his lifetime. The play is based on Jacob Cats' Vryster, a story published in Houwelick (1625, vol. II, p.53ff). It is about a student deceiving a girl and her father by putting the words 'vi coactus' (violently forced) under a promise to marry her, rendering the document worthless. The story is especially nice because of the conversations between the students Karel (the culprit) and Nicolaes, who are both very drunk from too much wine, at the beginning of the story.

Good copy.- (Tiny hole in tile-page; sl. dogeared).
Van Aken, Cat. Ned. Toneel, I, p.197; J.A. Worp, Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland, I, p.457.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Theatre 

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