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Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern periods, Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare interrogates the persistent duality of the roles of author and ambassador. The volume approaches its subject from a literary-historical perspective, drawing upon late medieval and early modern... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter; The art of saying exile, Elisa Brilli; Petrarch and the Venetian-Genoese war of 1350-1355, Alexander Lee; William de la Pole’s poetic ’parlement’: the political lyrics of Bodleian MS Fairfax 16, Mariana Neilly; ’I beseik thy Maiestie serene’: difficulties of diplomacy in Sir David Lyndsay’s Dreme, Kate Ash; ’Not cardinal but king’: Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician diplomatic imagination, Bradley J. Irish; In Spayne: Sir Thomas Wyatt and the poetics of embassy, William T. Rossiter; License and Lutheranism: diplomatic gossip, religious identity, and the Earl of Surrey, Mike Rodman Jones; Tasso at the French embassy: epic, diplomacy and the law of nations, Diego Pirillo; The 1559 Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis: print, marriages of state, and the expansion of diplomatic literacy, John Watkins; Astrophil the orator: diplomacy and diplomats in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, Jason Powell; Public diplomacy and the comedy of state: Chapman’s Monsieur D’Olive, Mark Netzloff; Shakespeare’s kingmaking ambassadors, Joanna Craigwood; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jason Powell is Assistant Professor at Saint Joseph's University, USA. William T. Rossiter is Senior Lecturer at the University East Anglia, UK.
'All those interested in how authors mediated and questioned power relations will find something of value in this volume.' SHARP News
