Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace (Early Modern Literature in History)

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 contributed to fashion the aesthetic and the political ideas and practice of the Renaissance. 1. The Poetics Of Diplomatic Appeasement In The Early Modern Era / Nathalie Rivère De Carles -- Pt. 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': Peacemaking 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 -- Pt. 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 Characterization And Diplomatic Appeasement In Catiline And Measure For Measure / Nathalie Rivère De Carles -- 7. Galleries And Soft Power: The Gallery In The Winter's Tale / Patricia Akhimie -- Pt. Iii Conciliatory Networks 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. Edited By Nathalie Rivere De Carles. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 221-231) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xv The Poetics of Diplomatic Appeasement in the Early Modern Era....Pages 1-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 The Slumber of War: Diplomacy, Tragedy, and the Aesthetics of the Truce in Early Modern Europe....Pages 27-45 ‘Ces petits livres en françois de Messieurs les Hotmans’: Peacemaking in a/the European Family....Pages 47-67 ‘Mediating Amicably’? The Birth of the Trauerspiel Out of the Letter of Westphalia....Pages 69-89 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 The Performative Power of Diplomatic Discourse in the Italian Tragedies Inspired by the Wars Against the Turks....Pages 93-112 The Ambassador as Proteus: Indirect Characterization and Diplomatic Appeasement in Catiline and Measure for Measure ....Pages 113-137 Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter’s Tale ....Pages 139-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Marginal Diplomatic Spaces During the Jacobean Era, 1603–25....Pages 163-182 Venetian Merchants as Diplomatic Agents: Family Networks and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe....Pages 183-203 The Fabric of Silk Power in the Sherley Portraits....Pages 205-220 Back Matter....Pages 221-239