The Triumph of Pleasure

By Georgia J. Cowart

Subjects: Dance, france, Music, french, France, court and courtiers, Musical theater, Ballet, Politics and culture, Music, Court and courtiers, Theater in propaganda, Social aspects, History, Ballet, history, Political aspects, Music, social aspects, Louis xiv, king of france, 1638-1715

Description: "Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority."--Jacket.