The Circulation of Humanist Drama from the Low Countries in Print

This file contains data about the places and dates where and when works by three of the most popular authors of the Latin school drama known as the biblical comedy or sacra comoedia were printed during the sixteenth century. These authors are Guilielmus Gnapheus (1493-1568), teacher at The Hague, Elbing, Königsberg and Emden; Cornelius Crocus (1500-1550), who taught in Amsterdam; and Georgius Macropedius (1487-1558), based in Den Bosch and Utrecht. They wrote their comedies during the 1520s to 1550s. I have collected all the available data for the cities and years where the works of these three authors were printed until 1600. The reason behind this cut-off date is that the data are most complete for this period, especially for the plays that were published earlier in the sixteenth century; limiting myself to the period before 1600 makes the comparison more stable. I classified works into dramatic and other publications. These data were gathered within the scope of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)–funded project ‘TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Drama from the Early Modern Netherlands.’ This project ran between 2020-2024 at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture, with Jan Bloemendal as PI, Dinah Wouters as postdoctoral researcher and Andrea Peverelli as PhD researcher. The data are analysed in "The Circulation of Humanist Drama from the Low Countries in Print: A Comparison of Three Cases with Nodegoat", in The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands: Qualitative and Computational Analyses, edited by Dinah Wouters and Jan Bloemendal (Brill, 2026).