]Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett, special editors[
Editors' preface: Calling on the Grand Si?سcle with Walter Benjamin -- The pleasures of hypothesis: Benjamin and the provisional French Trauerspiel -- "Giving voice to the feeling of his age": Benjamn, Pascal,and the Trauerspiel of the king without diversion -- Material fatality: props and the baroque drama of chance -- The crooked crown: reading Le Cid after la Mariane -- Melancholy Racine: Benjamin's Trauerspiel and literary Jews -- Noise, meaning, and music in the Racinian Trauerspiel -- Actor, act, and action in Benjamin's French baroque -- Classicism and the creaturely: Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte -- The dramaturgy of sovereignty and the performance of mourning: the case of Corneille's Horace -- La foi trait?شs: Baroque history, international law, and the politics of reading in Corneille's Rodogune -- Afterword: Re-animating the Gegenst? ck, or the survival of the French Trauerspiel in the German Baroque