Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performance As Rhetorical Discours (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature) - Couverture souple

Aercke, Kristiaan P.

 
9780791420508: Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performance As Rhetorical Discours (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

Synopsis

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 courts in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Versailles, and Vienna between 1631 and 1668.

Gods of Play fills voids in the scholarly literature on the seventeenth-century, on absolutism, on courtly theatricality, and on the philosophy of play. Aercke demonstrates that such splendid performances were not just frivolous entertainment for the courtly class but were serious activities with far-ranging political consequences.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kristiaan P. Aercke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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9780791420492: Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performance As Rhetorical Discourse

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0791420493 ISBN 13 :  9780791420492
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1994
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