The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
ISBN-10
0226116387
ISBN-13
9780226116389
Category
History
Pages
299
Language
English
Published
2008-12-15
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Georgia Cowart

Description

With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. 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.

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