Transfer and Integration of Latin and Vernacular Drama in the Early Modern Period. The case of Everyman, Elckerlijc, Homulus and Hecastus

Abstract

The Dutch morality play Elckerlijc, written at the end of the fifteenth century, and its translations and adaptations into English and Latin, may add some new insight into the role of systems and polysystems in the early modern period. It also modifies the concept of foreign literature, since Latin and vernacular literatures written within one country influenced each other intricately. Thus, the international Latin Republic of Letters was foreign in its use of another language, but it was common in the use of the same subjects, motifs and structures.