Overview
- The book examines the discussion of diplomacy and soft power in the plays of Shakespeare and Cervantes and their English, French, Italian and German contemporaries.
- It provides an international cross-cultural focus on the negotiation of European political and confessional conflicts and the official and non-official strategies of appeasement.
- The strong international array of up-and-coming and established scholars in literature and diplomatic history investigates early modern diplomatic forms of preservation of a European entente in the wake of the emergence of the nation-state.
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Truce to Negotiated Peace: The Temporal Diplomacies of a Literature of Appeasement
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A Very Political Peacemaker: The Stage Ambassador Between Diplomatic Tactics and Political Strategies
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Conciliatory Networks as Soft Power: A Dynamic Diplomacy of Cross-Confessional Appeasement
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power
Book Subtitle: The Making of Peace
Editors: Nathalie Rivère de Carles
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43693-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43692-4Published: 29 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43693-1Published: 13 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature