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This Is A Historical And Theoretical Examination Of French Baroque Court Ballet From Approximately 1573 Until 1670. Spanning The Late Renaissance And The Baroque, It Brings Aesthetic And Ideological Criteria To Bear On Court Ballet Libretti, Period Accounts, Contemporaneous Performance Theory, And Related Commentary On Dance And Movement In Literature. It Studies The Formal Choreographic Apparatus That Characterises Late Valois And Early Bourbon Ballet Spectacle And How Its Changing Aesthetic Ultimately Reflected The Political Situation Of The Nobles Who Devised & Performed Court Ballets. Cover; Dance As Text: Ideologies Of The Baroque Body; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface To The First Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Prologue: Constructing The Baroque Body; Chapter One: Writing Dancing,1573; Chapter Two: Ut Vox Corpus,1581; Chapter Three: Interlude: Montaigne's Dance,1580s; Chapter Four: Political Erotics Of Burlesque Ballet,1624-1627; Chapter Five: Molière And Textual Closure: Comedy-ballet,1661-1670; Epilogue: Repeatability, Reconstruction, And Beyond Appendix One: Notes On Characters Of Danceappendix Two: Original Text And Translation Of Les Fées (1625); Les Fèes Des Forests De Saint Germain: Ballet Dansè Par Le Roy En La Salle Du Louvre Le 9, Jour De Fevrier 1625; The Fays Of Saint Germain Forest: Ballet Danced By The King In The Louvre Hall On February 9, 1625; Appendix Three: Original Text And Translation Of Lettres Patentes (1962); Letters Patentes Du Roy, Pour L'establissement De L'academic Royale De Danse En La Ville De Paris. Verifièes En Parlement Le 30 Mars 1662; Visa, Seguier Extraict Des Registres De Parlementletters Patent Of The King For The Establishment Of A Royal Academy Of Dance In The City Of Paris. Verified In Parliament On March 30, 1662; Visa, Seguier; Excerpt Of The Registers Of Parliament; Appendix Four: The Amerindian In French Humanist And Burlesque Court Ballets; Notes; Preface; Prologue; Chapter 1: Writing Dancing, 1573; Chapter 2: Ut Vox Corpus, 1581; Chapter 3: Interlude; Chapter 4: Political Erotics Of Burlesque Ballet, 1624-1627; Chapter 5: Molière And Textual Closure; Epilogue Appendix 2appendix 3; Appendix 4; Bibliography; Index Mark Franko. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English