IntroductionSovereigntyFrans-Willem Korsten - What Roman Paradigm for the Dutch Republic? Baroque Tragedies and Ambiguities Concerning Dominium and TortureRuss Leo - Grotius Among the Dagonists: Joost van den Vondel's Samson, of Heilige Wraeck, Revenge and the Ius GentiumFreya Sierhuis - Performing the Medieval Past: Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637)ReligionHoward B. Norland - Political Martyrdom at the English College in RomeJames A. Parente, Jr. - Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583-1649)Blair Hoxby - The Baroque Tragedy of the Roman Jesuits: Flavia and BeyondEthicsEmily Vasiliauskas - Mortal Knowledge: Akrasia in English Renaissance TragedySarah Knight - A fabulis ad veritatem: Latin Tragedy, Truth and Education in Early Modern EnglandTatiana Korneeva - The Political Theatre and Theatrical Politics of Andrea Giacinto Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada (1641)Christian Biet - French Tragedy During the Seventeenth Century: From Cruelty on a Scaffold to Poetic Distance on Stage and Critical JudgmentMobilityJoel Lande - German Trauerspiel and its International Nexus: On the Migration of Poetic FormsHelmer Helmers - The Politics of Mobility: Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Jan Vos' Aran and Titus and the Poetics of EmpireNienke Tjoelker - French Classicism in Jesuit Theatre Poetics of the Eighteenth CenturyKirill Ospovat - Scenario of Terror: Royal Violence and the Origins of Russian Tragic DramaIndex.