Dancing queen : Marie de Médicis' ballets at the court of Henri IV /

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"Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gough, Melinda J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Temas:
Marie de Médicis, > Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, > 1573-1642 > Relations with courts and courtiers.
Marie de Médicis, > Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, > 1573-1642 > Knowledge > Ballet.
Marie de Médicis, > Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, > 1573-1642
1589-1699
Ballet > France > History > 17th century.
Ballet > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Ballet
Courts and courtiers
Relations with courts and courtiers
France > Court and courtiers > History > 17th century.
France > History > Henry IV, 1589-1610.
France > Histoire > 1589-1610 (Henri IV)
France
Bourbon monarchy.
France.
French court ballets.
French.
Henri IV.
Louvre.
Queen Marie de Médicis.
dance studies.
literary studies.
musicology.
political history.
women's and gender studies.
Electronic books.
History
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  • Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Principles of Transcription and Translation; Introduction; Chapter One-Magnificence, Mistresses, and Marie's Dance of Maternity; Peace, Plenty, and the Pleasures of Courtly Pastimes Restored; Franco-Florentine Neoplatonism and the (Medicean) Magnificence of Bourbon Rule; Marie as (Virgin) Mother; Marie's Primitive Accumulation of (Marian) Cultural Capital; Chapter Two-Royal Women's Ballet and/as Royal Ceremonial; Threats to Dynastic Continuity and Images of Joint Rule, 1603-5
  • The Occasion, the On-stage Action, and the Ballet's Framing as Royal Ceremonial"Pour faire ranger tout le monde"; Casting Choices: "Those Who Could Make her Queen"; Sovereign yet Subject; Ceremonial Expressions of Political Partnership: Abstract Theory, Embodied Practice; Chapter Three-Alliances and Others; Civility's (Islamic) Others; Restoring "the seat of his [Thracian] empire"; Collaboration ... and Contestation; Chapter Four-Eros and "Absolutism"; Marie's Ballet of Diana and her Nymphs: The On-stage Action and Its "Directrice Absolue."
  • (Dance) Lessons from a Queen: New Bourbon "Methodologies of Authority"Dance and/vs Song: Angélique Paulet and the Limits of Marie's (Proto)feminism; Eros Channeled to (Sovereign) Virtue: Marie Dances Diana; The April 1609 Ballet de Madame and the Limits of (Patriarchal) Absolutism; Chapter Five-Dances of Diplomacy: London, Valladolid, Paris; Two Queen's Masques, a Sarao, and the Treaty of London, 1604-5; "Hostipitality" at France's 1605 ballet de la reine; A Queen's Ballet, a Queen's Masque, and the Truce of Antwerp, 1609; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Notes

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