Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power

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