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This article examines the imagination of addiction in three early modern Dutch farces: Pieter Bernagie’s De románzieke juffer (1685), Enoch Krook’s De buitenspoorige toebaksnuiver (1697), and De theezieke juffers (1701) by Enoch Krook en Daniël Kroon. Although these farces were staged long before the pathologisation of addiction, they do conceptualise a mental state of limited personal agency caused by obsessive consumption behaviour. This article shows how this early conceptualisation of addiction was embedded in early modern medical and philosophical ideas about desire and moderation, and it analyses how the farces make addiction imaginable by relating it to well-known consumer practices.
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How to Cite: Hussem, A. (2024) “Hartstochtelijk verslingerd. Verslaving, verlangen en overmatige consumptie in Nederlandse kluchten rond 1700”, Janeway JS. 78(0).