TNTL 111

A. Agnes Sneller

Een sonnet van Tesselschade Roemers in genderperspectief

Abstract - The poetry of Tesselschade Roemers, a famous woman author of Early Modern Times in the Dutch Republic, has scarcely been interpreted. The recent annotated edition of her poems offers the opportunity to make new and renewing inquiries into her work. This article raises the question of how Tesselschade Roemers as a poet deals with the gender-biased presuppositions of her time. The interpretation of her poem 'Wat in de lotery Des lucks zyn oorspronck nam' with the help of the so-called 'philological method' answers this question only partly and also clarifies that this way of interpreting texts is not a sufficient one for reading texts in 'gender' perspective.