Title: The Triumph of Pleasure
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.
Subjects: Louis xiv, king of france, 1638-1715, Music, social aspects, Ballet, history, Musical theater, France, court and courtiers, Dance, france, Music, french, Music, Ballet, History, Court and courtiers, Politics and culture, Theater in propaganda, Social aspects, Political aspects