Foreword

Nathalie Rivere de Carles – Associate Professor in Early Modern English Drama and Diplomatic Culture at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She authored books and articles on theatre history, early modern theatre and history, theatre and diplomacy: Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace (Palgrave, 2016), Time’s Up for the Duchess: Malfi in Conversation (Scene Focus, CNRS, 2019), ‘Diplomatic Parrhesia and the Ethos of Trustworthiness in Hotman’s The Ambassador and Shakespeare’s Henry V’ (Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Duke University Press, 2020).