TY  - GEN
T1  - Dancing queen : Marie de Médicis' ballets at the court of Henri IV
A1  - Gough, Melinda J.
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1089195517
AB  - "Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis 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."--
CN  - DC122.9.M3 G68 2019
SN  - 9781487518462
SN  - 1487518463
SN  - 9781487518479
SN  - 1487518471
SN  - 9781487503666
SN  - 1487503660
KW  - Marie de Médicis, : Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, : 1573-1642 : Relations with courts and courtiers.
KW  - Marie de Médicis, : Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, : 1573-1642 : Knowledge : Ballet.
KW  - Marie de Médicis, : Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, : 1573-1642
KW  - Ballet : France : History : 17th century.
KW  - France : Court and courtiers : History : 17th century.
KW  - France : History : Henry IV, 1589-1610.
KW  - Ballet : France : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - France : Histoire : 1589-1610 (Henri IV)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : France.
KW  - HISTORY : Modern : 17th Century.
KW  - Ballet
KW  - Courts and courtiers
KW  - Relations with courts and courtiers
KW  - France
KW  - 1589-1699
KW  - Bourbon monarchy.
KW  - France.
KW  - French court ballets.
KW  - French.
KW  - Henri IV.
KW  - Louvre.
KW  - Queen Marie de Médicis.
KW  - dance studies.
KW  - literary studies.
KW  - musicology.
KW  - political history.
KW  - women's and gender studies.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -