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880-01 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction / Penskaya, Elena / Kèupper, Joachim -- I: Early Modern Variations -- Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648 / Marx, Peter W. -- Spe#x1B;(NS#x1B;(Btacularity before the "Renaissance" of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy / Ivanova, Julia V. -- Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pâicaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations / Richter, Sandra -- Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Golubkov, Andrey -- "Dressed for life's short comedy": Desengaäno and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare's Plays / Mosch, Jan -- The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderâon and Cervantes -- Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal / Kèupper, Joachim -- The King as a "Maker" of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV / Dickhaut, Kirsten -- War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances / Boltunova, Ekaterina -- Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria / Sokolov, Pavel V. -- II: The Romantic Turn -- Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling's Philosophy / Rezvykh, Petr -- The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception / Penskaya, Elena -- Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin / Smoliarova, Tatiana -- Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky / Kuptsova, Olga -- III: Twentieth-Century Experimentations and Theoretical Explorations -- The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco / Stein, Juana Christina von -- Chico Buarque's Gota d'âagua, uma tragâedia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 / Zepp, Susanne -- From theatrum mundi to Theatricality / Fischer-Lichte, Erika -- Notes on Contributors

The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.

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