A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France

Ellen R. Welch

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

A Theater of Diplomacy

International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France

Ellen R. Welch

In the series Haney Foundation Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293869

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About this book

In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in the early modern period.

Author / Editor information

Ellen R. Welch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction.

Reviews

"This book offers a series of important and fascinating studies about the interaction between the performing arts and diplomacy. Diplomats are often described as actors on a stage; more concretely their presence was important in court festivities; such forms of entertainment could accompany diplomatic practices. Ellen Welch chooses precise examples, especially ballets, from the end of the sixteenth century up to Louis XIV's reign to feed a remarkable reflection about the art (and arts) of peace."—Renaissance Quarterly

"Ellen Welch brings to life a world that has become almost completely foreign, while taking care to note the influence of early modern diplomacy on the spectacular statecraft of our own time. A Theater of Diplomacy is a quiet invitation to consider the importance of art and spectacle for the expression of difference and the constitution of community."—Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Deftly situated at the crossroads of cultural, political, and aesthetic history, A Theater of Diplomacy bridges the thriving fields of performance studies and the history and theory of international relations. No single book in this arena of early modern Europe has undertaken the kind of ambitiously comprehensive synthesis, stretching across two centuries, that Welch has created here."—Larry F. Norman, author of The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Orchestrating Dissonant Concord in the Bayonne Entertainments (1565) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. The Ambassador’s Point of View, from London to Paris (1608–9) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 3. National Actors on the Ballet Stage (1620s–30s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 4. Richelieu’s Allegories of War (1639–42) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 5. Ballet Diplomacy at the Congress of Westphalia (1645–49) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 6. Entertaining Personalities at Louis XIV’s Court (1653–69) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 7. Exotic Audiences (1668–1715) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 8. Diplomacy on the Public Stage (1697–1714) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illus.
Keywords: History; European History; World History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: March 16, 2017
ISBN: 9780812293869