Ritual design for the ballet stage
Subtitle: revisiting the Turkish ceremony in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)
By: Hanna Walsdorf (Ed.).
Series: Cadences : Schriften zur Tanz und Musikgeschichte -- Band 1; Cadences -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: Frank & Timme, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur; Frank & Timme GmbH
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9783732903733
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Dance; History; Bourgeois gentilhomme (Choreographic work); Bourgeois gentilhomme (Molière)
Description: "The Turkish ceremony in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme has been popular with audiences for almost 350 years and remains one of the best-known scenes of early modern French theatre. This newly researched volume spotlights the Turkish ceremony in its original technicolor, presenting numerous important discoveries that have never before been published. It shows that even in a field as thoroughly investigated as the collaboration between Molière and Lully at the court of Louis XIV, there is still much new source material to be discovered, and many new connections to be made. As the multidisciplinary essays examine the burlesque Turkish scene from a social, political, textual and iconographic view point they unearth, time and again, flaws, omissions and errors transmitted in earlier scholarship. Ritual Design is a must-have volume that sets the record straight"--Back cover.

The Turkish ceremony in ?Le Bourgeois gentilhomme? has been popular with audiences for almost 350 years and remains one of the best-known scenes of early modern French theatre. This newly researched volume spotlights the Turkish ceremony in its original technicolor, presenting numerous important discoveries that have never before been published. It shows that even in a field as thoroughly investigated as the collaboration between Molière and Lully at the court of Louis XIV, there is still much new source material to be discovered, and many new connections to be made. As the multidisciplinary essays examine the burlesque Turkish scene from a social, political, textual and iconographic view point they unearth, time and again, flaws, omissions and errors transmitted in earlier scholarship. ?Ritual Design? is a must-have volume that sets the record straight.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From mishap to mockery: why and how Le Bourgeois gentilhomme was (really) born  -- Hanna Walsdorf; title: "Un Livre, s'il vous plaît": the "livrets" printed by Ballard and Hotot for Le Bourgeois gentilhomme in 1670  -- Gerrit Berenike Heiter; title: A tabular comparison of the paroles and didascalies used in select livrets and text editions, 1670-1691  -- Hanna Walsdorf & Kathrin Stocker; title: Vigarani's stage at Chambord Castle  -- Hanna Walsdorf; title: Material matters: dressing Jourdain and the Fake Turks  -- Petra Dotlačilová; title: French-Ottoman knowledge exchange on music in the context of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme  -- Judith I. Haug; title: Lully and his music for the Turkish ceremony: sources and discourses, old and new  -- Hanna Walsdorf; title: The representation of the Turk in early modern French masquerades and court ballets  -- Gerrit Berenike Heiter; title: "Une gamme d'effets théâtraux": thoughts on dance, grimace, and action in the Turkish ceremony  -- Kathrin Stocker, Hanna Walsdorf & Gerrit Berenike Heiter; title: "Oh how we love the Mamamouchi!" The Turkish ceremony in Ravenscroft's The Citizen turn'd gentleman (1672)  -- Hanna Walsdorf & Torben Schleiner; title: London, 1672: The Citizen turn'd gentleman  -- Jan Rupp; title: From Chambord to Dorset Garden? Mr. Isaac and his role in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme -- Jennifer Thorp.