Theater as Metaphor Frontmatter Acknowledgments Contents Introduction Penskaya Elena Küpper Joachim I: Early Modern Variations Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German Speaking Sphere before 1648 Marx Peter W. Speсtacularity before the Renaissance of Theater: Visuality and Self Image of the Quattrocento papacy Ivanova Julia V. Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth Century Picaresque Narrations Richter Sandra Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Golubkov Andrey Dressed for lifes short comedy : Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeares Plays Mosch Jan The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal Küpper Joachim The King as a Maker of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV Dickhaut Kirsten War Peace and Territory in Late Eighteenth Century Russian Outdoor Performances Boltunova Ekaterina Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria Sokolov Pavel V. II: The Romantic Turn Theater World History and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schellings Philosophy Rezvykh Petr The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception Penskaya Elena Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin Smoliarova Tatiana Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky Kuptsova Olga III: Twentieth Century Experimentations and Theoretical Explorations The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco Stein Juana Christina von Chico Buarques Gota dágua uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship 1964 1985 Zepp Susanne From theatrum mundi to Theatricality Fischer Lichte Erika Notes on Contributors