Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
Goldsmiths' College
Brief description
Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et jeux de transgression (1622-1638)
Type
R - Scholarly edition
DOI
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Publisher of book
Société de Littératures Classiques
Title of edition
Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et jeux de transgression (1622-1638)
ISBN of book
9782908728699
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This is the second volume of a two-volume edition of ballets danced at the court of Louis XIII between 1622 and 1638. It focuses on the burlesque with a view to highlighting the ambivalence, if not the outright subversive nature of works whose incorporation of carnival culture functioned as a counterpoint to the official culture conveyed by the political ballets discussed in volume 1. Burlesque ballets also testified to the continued presence of a variety of voices and points of view, which could be seen as symbolic of the power struggle between the monarchy and the Grands.
