The triumph of pleasure: Louis XIV and the politics of spectacle

Contents

Muses of pleasure : Louis XIV's early court ballet, 1651-1660 -- Muses of memory : Louis XIV's late court ballet, 1661-1669 -- Muses of satire : Le bourgeois gentilhomme & the utopia of spectacle -- Tragic interlude : reversals at the Paris Opéra, 1671-1697 -- Sappho, Cythera & the triumph of love : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1700-1713 -- Carnival, commedia dell'arte & the triumph of folly : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1699-1718 -- Watteau's Cythera, the opéra-ballet & the staging of pleasure.