Melinda Gough

Dancing Queen

Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

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Produktbeschreibung

Dancing Queen takes up court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’s use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503666
• ISBN-10: 1487503660
• Artikelnr.: 52422323

Autorenporträt

Melinda J. Gough is a professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Principles of Transcription and Translation
Introduction
1 Magnificence, Mistresses, and Marie’s Dance of Maternity
2 Royal Women’s Ballet and/as Royal Ceremonial
3 Alliances and Others
4 Eros and "Absolutism"
5 Dances of Diplomacy: London, Valladolid, Paris
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: Verse Texts for the Ballet of the Sixteen Virtues (1602)
Appendix 2: Verse Texts for the Ballet of Diana and her Nymphs (1609)
Appendix 3: Verse Texts for the Ballet de Madame (1609)
Notes
Bibliography
Index