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Gods of play : baroque festive performances as rhetorical discourse /
This book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe. As an emblem of this interrelationship, the author has chosen the phenomenon of the 'splendid festive performance' of spectacular plays and operas given at absolutist court...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[1994]
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| Colección: | SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe. As an emblem of this interrelationship, the author has chosen the phenomenon of the 'splendid festive performance' of spectacular plays and operas given at absolutist courts in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Versailles, and Vienna between 1631 and 1668. Gods of Play fills voids in the scholarly literature on the seventeenth-century, on absolutism, on courtly theatricality, and on the philosophy of play. Aercke demonstrates that such splendid performances were not just frivolous entertainment for the courtly class but were serious activities with far-ranging political consequences. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780585092263 0585092265 0791494314 9780791494318 |