Early modern diplomacy, theatre and soft power : the making of peace /: the making of peace. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nathalie Rivere de Carles.
• Editors: Rivère de Carles, Nathalie
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; List of Abbreviations ; List of Figures; Chapter 1: The Poetics of Diplomatic Appeasement in the Early Modern Era ; 1 Reading Diplomacy: A Combination of Reason and Imagination; 2 Early Modern Soft Power: Time, Tactics and Networks of Appeasement; Notes; Part I: From Truce to Negotiated Peace: The Temporal Diplomacies of a Literature of Appeasement; Chapter 2: The Slumber of War: Diplomacy, Tragedy, and the Aesthetics of the Truce in Early Modern Europe ; 1 The Dramatic Truce, the Truce as Drama; 2 Cervantes and the Trials of Heroism. 3 Corneille and Diplomatic Virtue4 The Rhythm of Peacemaking; Notes; Chapter 3: 'Ces petits livres en françois de Messieurs les Ho ; 1 Les Opuscules françoises and The Ambassador: The Diplomatic Method of the Editorial Truce; 2 Lying Honestly: The Necessary Theatricality as Prerequisite of the Truce; 3 Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem: Illusion as Unstable Space of Truce; Notes; Chapter 4: 'Mediating Amicably'? The Birth of the Trauerspiel ; 1 The Spirit and the Letter of Westphalia; 2 'The Great German Dramatists of the Baroque Were [Silesians]'; 3 Cultural Ambassadors and a Token Peace; Notes. Part II: A Very Political Peacemaker: The Stage Ambassador Between Diplomatic Tactics and Political StrategiesChapter 5: The Performative Power of Diplomatic Discourse in the Italian Tragedies Inspired by the Wars Against the Turks ; 1 A Political Break with Aristotle; 2 Dramatizing Immediate History: The Defeats of Buda and Famagusta; 3 Representing the Great Turk; 4 Dramatizing the Diplomatic Discourse: The Nuntius and the Ambassador; 5 Negotiating with the Sultan: The Effects of Silence; Notes. Chapter 6: The Ambassador as Proteus: Indirect Characterization and Diplomatic Appeasement in Catiline and Measure for Measure 1 A Not so 'Dull' Ambassador: The Rise of the Active Catastrophe and the Decline of the Nuntius; 2 Towards a Diplomatic Character: The Ambassador as Trope; 3 Tragicomic Appeasement and Diplomatic coup d'état in Measure for Measure; Notes; Chapter 7: Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter's Tale ; 1 Galleries Off Stage; 2 Galleries On Stage; 3 The Gallery in The Winter's Tale; Notes. Part III: Conciliatory Networks as Soft Power: A Dynamic Diplomacy of Cross- Confessional AppeasementChapter 8: Marginal Diplomatic Spaces During the Jacobean Era, 1603-25 ; 1 The Scenography of an Itinerant Diplomacy; 2 Unusual Encounters: The Ambassador's Spatial Initiative; 3 The Diplomacy of Jacobean Progresses; 4 The Gallery as Locus of Private Diplomatic Talks and Conflict Avoidance; Notes; Chapter 9: Venetian Merchants as Diplomatic Agents: Family Networks and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe ; 1 'The Perfect Merchant'; 2 English Connections.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.894; Diplomacy in literature; Theaters -- History; Peace-building and theater; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Diplomacy in literature; Peace-building and theater; Theaters; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137436931
• Related ISBNs: 113743693X; 9781137436924; 1137436921
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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