Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe /
Hampton, Timothy.
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.
European literature
European literature
Diplomacy in literature.
International relations in literature.
Politics and literature
Diplomacy
Fictions of embassy.