Ballet des plaisirs
Subtitle: dansé par sa majesté le 4. jour de Feburier 1655 : diuisé en deux parties, dont la premiere contient les delices de la campagne, & la seconde les diuertissements de la ville
Publisher: Chez Robert Ballard ...
Published: 1655
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos; Scenarios; Specimens
Other titles: Ballet des plaisirs (Choreographic work : Beauchamp)
Work titles: Ballet des plaisirs
Notes: Libretto, with scenarios, for a ballet de cour; pt. 1 has 12 entrées, pt. 2 has 13 entrées.

Récit texts by Isaac de Benserade; music by Jean Baptiste Lully and Jean-Baptiste Boesset; choreography by Pierre Beauchamp.

First performed at the Palais au Louvre, Paris, 4 February 1655.

Cast lists at beginning of each entrée; dancers include Louis XIV, the Duc de Roquelaure, the Conte de Saint-Aignan, and other members of the court.

Signatures: A-G².

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and illustrated initials.

Christout, M.-F. Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV, 1643-1672, p. 261.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Imperfect: lower portion of t.-p. cut away; imprint wanting.

Waste sheet wrappers; in case, 27 cm.

No. 5 in a volume of 18 works with binder's title: Recueil de ballets representés à la cour de 1653 à 1664.