Gods of play: Baroque festive performances as rhetorical discourse

Gods of Play 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 co...

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1. Verfasser: Aercke, Kristiaan 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany, NY State University of New York Press [1994]
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series : The margins of literature
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Zusammenfassung:Gods of Play 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
Beschreibung:xii, 284 Seiten
ISBN:0791420493

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