Tabla de Contenidos: “…I Setting the scene -- 1.The Court as an Instrument of Power -- 2.The Theatre of Royalty -- 3.The Royal Palace: A Stage for Royal Rituals -- Pt. …”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) -- 1 Opening Spaces for the Reading Audience: Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina (1499/1502) and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Mandragola (1518) / 2 Why Do Men Go Blind in the Theatre? Gender Riddles and Fools’ Play in the Italian Renaissance Comedy Gl’Ingannati (1532) / 3 The Accademia degli Alterati and the Invention of a New Form of Dramatic Experience: Myth, Allegory, and Theory in Jacopo Peri’s and Ottavio Rinuccini’s Euridice (1600) / 4 Il favore degli dei (1690): Meta-Opera and Metamorphoses at the Farnese Court / 5 Entertainment for Melancholics: The Public and the Public Stage in Carlo Gozzi’s L’Amore delle tre melarance / 6 Pierre Nicole, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and the Psychological Experience of Theatrical Performance in Early Modern France / 7 The Catharsis of Prosecution: Royal Violence, Poetic Justice, and Public Emotion in the Russian Hamlet (1748) / 8 The Politics of Tragedy in the Dutch Republic: Joachim Oudaen’s Martyr Drama in Context / 9 Devils On and Off Stage: Shifting Effects of Fear and Laughter in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Urban Theatre / 10 Imagining the Audience in Eighteenth-Century Folk Theatre in Tyrol / 11 Nô within Walls and Beyond: Theatre as Cultural Capital in Edo Japan (1603–1868) / Index…”

“…Panorama of royal and princely ceremonial, their evolution from the end of the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century and their diffusion throughout the Courts of Europe. …”