@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/TNTL2022.3.002.VLIE, author = "van Vliet, Rietje", title = "Spotheldendichten uit de achttiende eeuw", journal= "Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde", year = "2022", volume = "138", number = "3", pages = "224-243", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2022.3.002.VLIE", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/TNTL2022.3.002.VLIE", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2212-0521", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "eighteenth century", keywords = "burlesque poetry", keywords = "genre", keywords = "mock epics", keywords = "Elizabeth Wolff", abstract = "Abstract Mock epics are a burlesque genre that was mainly popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A distinguishing feature is that the elevated style of the classical epic poem is adapted to a commonplace subject or character (or vice versa). Although still practised in the eighteenth century, the genre has never been researched for the Dutch language area before. This may be due to the fact that the labels differ considerably, but also because form and content vary widely from that of the epic, from which they were originally derived. Whereas some mock epics describe the reputed heroic feats of a protagonist, in others the main character remains in the background or is even altogether absent. In one or two cases, the poem is actually written in prose. Jean Guépin’s previously unpublished Vlissingsche Kermis (Vlissingen Fair) of 1765 demonstrates that the genre characteristics were not always clear cut even to contemporaries.", }