Poetics and Politics: Net Structures and Agencies in Early Modern Drama

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
‘National Literatures’?
American Presidential Candidates at the Court of Charles V: How Political Theory Trumped Political Theology in Fourteenth-Century Paris
Cross-Cultural Inventions in Drama on the Basis of the Novel in Prose, or World Literature before World Literature: The Case of Fortunatus
Sex on Stage: How Does the Audience Know? (Dovizi da Bibbiena, La Calandra, III.10; Shakespeare, Henry V, V.2)
Castiglione’s ‘Green’ Sense of Theater
Luigi Groto’s Adriana: A Laboratory Experiment on Literary Genre
The Agency of Errors: Hamartia and its (Mis)interpretations in the Italian Cinquecento
Playful Institutions: Social and Textual Practices in Early Spanish Academies
The Role of Music in Folk Drama: An Investigation Based on Tyrolean Sources
From a Rhetorical to a ‘Natural’ Art of Acting: What the Networks of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Achieved
Early Modern Religious Processions: The Rise and Fall of a Political Genre
Directions, Examples, and Incentives: Slovenian Playwriting in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Variants of Hypólepsis: Rhetorical, Anthropistic, Dramatic (With Remarks on Terence, Machiavelli, Shakespeare)
Index