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Author:   Nathalie Rivère de Carles
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9781137436924

ISBN 10:   1137436921
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   29 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Poetics of Diplomatic Appeasement in the Early Modern Era; Nathalie Rivère de Carles.- PART I. FROM TRUCE TO NEGOTIATED PEACE: THE TEMPORAL DIPLOMACIES OF A LITERATURE OF APPEASEMENT.- 2. The Slumber of War Diplomacy, Tragedy, and the Aesthetics of the Truce in Early Modern Europe; Timothy Hampton.- 3. ‘Ces petits livres en françois de Messieurs les Hotmans’: Peace in a/the European Family; Dominique Goy-Blanquet.- 4. ‘Mediating Amicably’? The Birth of the Trauerspiel out of the Letter of Westphalia; Jane O. Newman.- PART II. A VERY POLITICAL PEACEMAKER: THE STAGE AMBASSADOR BETWEEN DIPLOMATIC TACTICS AND POLITICAL STRATEGIES.- 5. The Performative Power of Diplomatic Discourse in the Italian Tragedies Inspired by the Wars against the Turks; Valeria Cimmieri.- 6. The Ambassador as Proteus: Indirect Characterisation and Diplomatic Appeasement in Catiline and Measure for Measure; Nathalie Rivère deCarles.- 7. Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter’s Tale; Patricia Akhimie.- PART III. CONCILIATORY NETOWRKS AS SOFT POWER: A DYNAMIC DIPLOMACY OF CROSS-CONFESSIONAL APPEASEMENT.- 8. Marginal Diplomatic Spaces during the Jacobean Era, 1603–25; Roberta Anderson.- 9. Venetian Merchants as Diplomatic Agents: Family Networks and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe; Diego Pirillo.- 10. The Fabric of Silk Power in the Sherley Portraits; Ladan Niayesh.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.-

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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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