TY - JOUR
TI - Drama tragicum de Maria Augusta Othonis III Imperatoris conjuge: Identification and Edition of a Neo-Latin Tragedy Newly Attributed to Nicolaus Vernulaeus
AU - De Sutter, Nicholas
TI - Drama tragicum de Maria Augusta Othonis III Imperatoris conjuge: Identification and Edition of a Neo-Latin Tragedy Newly Attributed to Nicolaus Vernulaeus
AB - This article identifies and edits Drama tragicum de Maria Augusta Othonis III Imperatoris conjuge, an anonymous Neo-Latin tragedy preserved in Paris BnF lat. 8437. The drama, offering a mediaeval reworking of the Phaedra motif of illicit desire and false accusations of rape, is here attributed to Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649), the most prolific and successful playwright-professor of the early modern University of Leuven. Drawing on manuscript evidence and Vernulaeus’s own dramatic practice, the article reconstructs the play’s original context and argues for its place within his political and moral didactic theatre. By correcting a long-standing misidentification of the manuscript, this study not only expands Vernulaeus’s oeuvre—long known exclusively through his printed historical tragedies—but also contributes to a fuller understanding of Leuven academic drama and the institutional culture in which Vernulaeus operated.
VL - 2026
IS - Tom 28, zeszyt 1 (78)
PY - 2026
SN - 2082-0984
C1 - 2084-3844
SP - 123
EP - 160
DO - 10.4467/20843844TE.26.005.23203
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/terminus/artykul/drama-tragicum-de-maria-augusta-othonis-iii-imperatoris-conjuge-identification-and-edition-of-a-neo-latin-tragedy-newly-attributed-to-nicolaus-vernulaeus
KW - Nicolaus Vernulaeus
KW - Leuven University
KW - Neo-Latin drama
KW - manuscript
KW - Otto III