| A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France Subjects: Cultural diplomacy -- France -- History -- 16th century; Cultural diplomacy -- France -- History -- 17th century; Cultural diplomacy -- France -- History -- 18th century; Performing arts -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 16th century; Performin; In A Theater of Diplomacy , Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in the early modern period. Ellen R. Welch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction. |