"This volume uses theories of circulation to analyze the development of European secular and religious drama. It explores the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within given artefacts or within genres, and the strategies of functionalization in the context of a given part of the cultural net"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National literatures? / Joachim K�upper -- American presidential candidates at the court of Charles V: how political theory trumped political theology in fourteenth-century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols -- Cross-cultural inventions in drama on the basis of the novel in prose, or world literature before world literature: the case of Fortunatus / Sandra Richter -- Sex on stage: how does the audience know? (Dovizi da Bibbiena, La Calandra III. 10; Shakespeare, Henry V, V.2) / Esther Schomacher -- Castigliones green sense of theater / Stefano Gulizia -- Luigi Grotos Adriana: a laboratory experiment on literary genre / Bernhard Huss -- The agency of errors: Hamartia and its (mis)interpretations in the Italian Cinquecento / Cristina Savettieri -- Playful institutions: social and textual practices in early Spanish academies / Stephanie Bung -- The role of music in folk drama: an investigation based on Tyrolean sources / Franz Gratl -- From a rhetorical to a natural art of acting: what the networks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries achieved / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Early modern religious processions: the rise and fall of a political genre / Ja�sa Drnov�sek -- Directions, examples, and incentives: Slovenian playwriting in the second half of the eighteenth century / Igor Grdina -- Variants of hypothepsis: rhetorical, anthropistic, dramatic (with remarks on Terence, Machiavelli, Shakespeare) / DS Mayfield.

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In English.

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