TY - JOUR AB - <p>The traditional view of the history of the rhetoricians tells us that the first half<br>of the seventeenth century was a period of total decline for these theatre societies.<br>Even less is known about the period after 1650. The case of the Antwerp<br>Chamber of Rhetoric called The Olive Branch (originally named The<br>Gillyflowers) demonstrates that the rhetoricians were quite resilient: between<br>1662 en 1762 performances continued, new plays were written and the<br>rhetoricians were sympathetic towards new and popular forms of drama, as<br>the surviving repertoire demonstrates.</p> AU - Timothy De Paepe DA - 2008/1// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v62i0.17447 IS - 0 VL - 62 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2008 TI - 'De liefhebbers van den herstelden Olyf-tack': De Antwerpse rederijkers en hun overgeleverde repertoire tussen 1662 en 1762 T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72098/ ER -