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INTRODUCTION -- I. POLITICAL THEATER AND THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN TRAGIC DRAMA. Theater at Court -- Sumarokov and the réformation du theâtre -- Political Theater and the Poetics of Autocracy -- Scenarios of Power: The Politics of Tragic Plots -- Dramatic Experience: Tragedy and the Emotional Economy of the Court -- II. KHOREV, OR THE TRAGEDY OF ORIGIN. Poetry, History, Allegory -- Khorev and the Scenario of Marriage -- Pastoral Politics and Tragedy -- The Tragedy of Suspicion -- III. POETIC JUSTICE: COUP D{u2019}ÉTAT, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND THE POLITICS OF SPECTACLE IN THE RUSSIAN HAMLET. Tragedy and Political Theology -- The Drama of Coup d{u2019}état -- Anatomy of Melancholy, or Gamlet the Hero -- Investigations of Malice -- The Catharsis of Pardon -- EPILOGUE. THE THEATER OF WAR AND PEACE: THE MIRACLE OF THE HOUSE OF BRANDENBURG AND THE POETICS OF EUROPEAN ABSOLUTISM. Tragedy and Political Theology on the Battlefield -- Frederick, or the Performance of Defeat -- Peter, or the Tragedy of Triumph -- CONCLUSION. Tragedy, History, and Theory.