The triumph of pleasure : Louis XIV & the politics of spectacle
"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority."--Jacket
musical theater
xxiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226116389, 9780226211558, 0226116387, 022621155X
227000202
Muses of pleasure : Louis XIV's early court ballet, 1651-1660
Muses of memory : Louis XIV's late court ballet, 1661-1669
Muses of satire : Le bourgeois gentilhomme & the utopia of spectacle
Tragic interlude : reversals at the Paris Opéra, 1671-1697
Sappho, Cythera & the triumph of love : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1700-1713
Carnival, commedia dell'arte & the triumph of folly : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1699-1718
Watteau's Cythera, the opéra-ballet & the staging of pleasure