Chapter 1 The Poetics of Diplomatic Appeasement in the Early Modern Era

Chapter 2 The Slumber of War: Diplomacy, Tragedy, and the Aesthetics of the Truce in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 3 ‘ Ces petits livres en françois de Messieurs les Hotmans ’: Peacemaking in a/the European Family

Chapter 4 ‘Mediating Amicably’? The Birth of the Trauerspiel Out of the Letter of Westphalia

Chapter 5 The Performative Power of Diplomatic Discourse in the Italian Tragedies Inspired by the Wars Against the Turks

Chapter 6 The Ambassador as Proteus: Indirect Characterization and Diplomatic Appeasement in Catiline and Measure for Measure

Chapter 7 Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 8 Marginal Diplomatic Spaces During the Jacobean Era, 1603–25

Chapter 10 The Fabric of Silk Power in the Sherley Portraits