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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aercke, Kristiaan, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1994]
Series:SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Theater > Europe > History > 17th century.
Theater > Semiotics.
Théâtre > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sémiotique et théâtre.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Courts and courtiers.
Theater.
Europe > Court and courtiers.
Europe > Cours et courtisans.
Europe.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : the view from above
  • 1. Feasts, allegories, and politics
  • 2. Rhetoric and Baroque festive performances
  • Interlude : the gods of play
  • 3. The Barberini saint : Sant'Alessio
  • 4. El rey planeta : El mayor encanto, amor
  • 5. Hercules and the Sun King : Ercole Amante and La Princesse d'Elide
  • 6. Ne plus ultra : Il pomo d'oro, the Habsburg apple.

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