The Triumph of Pleasure
Subtitle: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226116389
Subjects: Genres & Styles - Ballet; Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General; Music / Opera; Music; Music/Songbooks
Description: "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.