Format:
1 online resource (395 pages)
ISBN:
9781487518462
Content:
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.
Content:
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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487503666
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gough, Melinda J., 1967 - Dancing queen Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019 ISBN 9781487503666
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Maria Frankreich, Königin 1575-1642
;
Heinrich IV. Frankreich, König 1553-1610
;
Hof
;
Ballett
;
History.
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