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.

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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 an associate professor in the Department 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