Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Joachim Küpper
‘National Literatures’? 19

Stephen G. Nichols
American Presidential Candidates at the Court of Charles V: How Political Theory Trumped Political Theology in Fourteenth-Century Paris 37

Sandra Richter
Cross-Cultural Inventions in Drama on the Basis of the Novel in Prose, or World Literature before World Literature: The Case of Fortunatus 53

Esther Schomacher
Sex on Stage: How Does the Audience Know? (Dovizi da Bibbiena, La Calandra, III.10; Shakespeare, Henry V, V.2) 69

Stefano Gulizia
Castiglione’s ‘Green’ Sense of Theater 101

Bernhard Huss
Luigi Groto’s Adriana: A Laboratory Experiment on Literary Genre 119

Cristina Savettieri
The Agency of Errors: Hamartia and its (Mis)interpretations in the Italian Cinquecento 149

Stephanie Bung
Playful Institutions: Social and Textual Practices in Early Spanish Academies 169

Franz Gratl
The Role of Music in Folk Drama: An Investigation Based on Tyrolean Sources 185

Erika Fischer-Lichte
From a Rhetorical to a ‘Natural’ Art of Acting: What the Networks of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Achieved 199

Jaša Drnovšek
Early Modern Religious Processions: The Rise and Fall of a Political Genre 215

Igor Grdina
Directions, Examples, and Incentives: Slovenian Playwriting in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 225

DS Mayfield
Variants of hypólepsis: Rhetorical, Anthropistic, Dramatic (With Remarks on Terence, Machiavelli, Shakespeare) 233

Index

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