Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis...
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Author: Melinda Gough
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Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV by Gough, Melinda

Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

BD$103.49

Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

BD$103.49
Author: Melinda Gough
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad.

At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death.



Author: Melinda Gough
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 11/24/2020
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781487526795

About the Author
Gough, Melinda: - Melinda J. Gough is an associate professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.


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