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Authority and diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare / edited by Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter.

  • Accession number

    8341065

  • Class

    95 history and criticism/AUT

  • ISBN

    9781409430209

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    ix, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

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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-Cambresis: print, marriages of state and the expansion of diplomatic literacy, John Watkins; Astrophil the orator: diplomacy and diplomats in Sidney's Astophil 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.