{"product_id":"a-theater-of-diplomacy-9780812249002","title":"A Theater of Diplomacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" * \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Deftly situated at the crossroads of cultural, political, and aesthetic history, \u003ci\u003eA Theater of Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eA Theater of Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Orchestrating Dissonant Concord in the Bayonne Entertainments (1565)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Ambassador's Point of View, from London to Paris (1608-9)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. National Actors on the Ballet Stage (1620s-30s)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Richelieu's Allegories of War (1639-42)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Ballet Diplomacy at the Congress of Westphalia (1645-49)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Entertaining Personalities at Louis XIV's Court (1653-69)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Exotic Audiences (1668-1715)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Diplomacy on the Public Stage (1697-1714)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405729800535,"sku":"9780812249002","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-theater-of-diplomacy-9780812249002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}