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Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace (Early Modern Literature in History)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Rivere De Carles, Nathalie. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 239 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSB; DSG; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia. It offers an original insight into the art of diplomacy in the 1580-1655 period through the prism of literature, theatre and material history.
Contributors investigate English, Italian and German plays of Renaissance theoretical texts on diplomacy, lifting the veil on the intimate relations between ambassadors and the artistic world and on theatre as an unexpected instrument of 'soft power'. The volume offers new approaches to understanding Early Modern diplomacy, which was a source of inspiration for Renaissance drama for Shakespeare and his European contemporaries, and ... Read more
This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia. It offers an original insight into the art of diplomacy in the 1580-1655 period through the prism of literature, theatre and material history.
Contributors investigate English, Italian and German plays of Renaissance theoretical texts on diplomacy, lifting the veil on the intimate relations between ambassadors and the artistic world and on theatre as an unexpected instrument of 'soft power'. The volume offers new approaches to understanding Early Modern diplomacy, which was a source of inspiration for Renaissance drama for Shakespeare and his European contemporaries, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Literature in History
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137436924
SKU
V9781137436924
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
Nathalie Rivere de Carles is Reader in Early Modern English Drama at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. She authored chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy (2015) and in Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance (2013); and is a contributing Textual Editor of the third edition of The Norton Shakespeare.
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