TNTL 113

Jan Konst

‘Dits des werrelts loop'
Fortuna, Fatum en Providentia Dei in het toneeloeuvre van Pieter Cornelisz Hooft

Abstract - This article discusses the role of Providence (Providentia Dei), fate (fatum) and fortune (fortuna) in the dramatic works of Pieter Cornelisz Hooft, which date from 1600 to 1618. All of his five tragedies deal with the complex relationship between the freedom of action on the one, and the omnipotent powers of Providence, fate and fortune on the other hand. Hooft's conceptions are studied in relation with Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, which had been translated into Dutch some years before bij D.V. Coornhert.