Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Literature and Historiography in Aristotle and in Modern Times 28
6. History, Myth, and Early Modern Drama 38
7. King Arthur in Medieval French Literature: History and Fiction, the Sense of the Tragic, and the Role of Dreams in La Mort le Roi Artu 42
8. When History Does Not Fit into Drama: Some Thoughts on the Absence of King Arthur in Early Modern Plays 56
9. Machiavelli’s Soteriology and the Humanist Quattrocento Dialogue 60
10. Lucretia without Poniard: Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft’s Geeraerdt van Velsen between Livy and Tacitus 72
11. The Historical Writing of Catherine II: Dynasty and Self-Fashioning in The Chesme Palace (Chesmenskii Dvorets) 86
12. History – Drama – Mythology 96
13. Fielding’s Farces: Travestying the Historiosophical Discourse 101
14. Ostrovsky’s Experience of the Creation of the European Theatrical Canon and Russian Stage Practice: Personal Preferences and General Trends 112
15. The Bildungsdrama and Alexander Ostrovsky’s Plays 121
16. “Sail[ing] on the Pathless Deep”: Michael Madhusudan Datta’s Dramatic Entanglements 129
17. The Crystallization of Early Modern European Drama in the Folk-Theater Tradition in Tyrol: The Marienberg Griseldis from 1713, Staged in 2016 147
18. Rhetorical Ventriloquism in Application 160
19. Notes on Contributors 193
20. Index 199