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Ellen R. Welch - Theater of Diplomacy - 9780812249002 - V9780812249002
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Theater of Diplomacy

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Description for Theater of Diplomacy Hardcover. In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in this period. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

The seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to an actor became commonplace as the practice of diplomacy took hold in early modern Europe. More than an abstract metaphor, it reflected the rich culture of spectacular entertainment that was a backdrop to emissaries' day-to-day lives. Royal courts routinely honored visiting diplomats or celebrated treaty negotiations by staging grandiose performances incorporating dance, music, theater, poetry, and pageantry. These entertainments—allegorical ballets, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Haney Foundation Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812249002
SKU
V9780812249002
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About Ellen R. Welch
Ellen R. Welch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction.

Reviews for Theater of Diplomacy
"This book offers a series of important and fascinating studies about the interaction between the performing arts and diplomacy. Diplomats are often described as actors on a stage; more concretely their presence was important in court festivities; such forms of entertainment could accompany diplomatic practices. Ellen Welch chooses precise examples, especially ballets, from the end of the sixteenth century up ... Read more

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