Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- ’National Literatures’? -- American Presidential Candidates at the Court of Charles V: How Political Theory Trumped Political Theology in Fourteenth-Century Paris -- Cross-Cultural Inventions in Drama on the Basis of the Novel in Prose, or World Literature before World Literature: The Case of Fortunatus -- Sex on Stage: How Does the Audience Know? (Dovizi da Bibbiena, La Calandra, III.10 -- Shakespeare, Henry V, V.2) -- Castiglione’s ’Green’ Sense of Theater -- Luigi Groto’s Adriana: A Laboratory Experiment on Literary Genre -- The Agency of Errors: Hamartia and its (Mis)interpretations in the Italian Cinquecento -- Playful Institutions: Social and Textual Practices in Early Spanish Academies -- The Role of Music in Folk Drama: An Investigation Based on Tyrolean Sources -- From a Rhetorical to a ’Natural’ Art of Acting: What the Networks of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Achieved -- Early Modern Religious Processions: The Rise and Fall of a Political Genre -- Directions, Examples, and Incentives: Slovenian Playwriting in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- Variants of Hypolepsis: Rhetorical, Anthropistic, Dramatic (With Remarks on Terence, Machiavelli, Shakespeare) -- Index.