Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV
Titel
Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV
Subtitel
Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image
Prijs
€ 124,00 excl. BTW
ISBN
9789048563050
Uitvoering
Hardback
Aantal pagina's
212
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Inhoudsopgave
Toon inhoudsopgaveVerberg inhoudsopgave
Dedication and Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction Prince Felipe Próspero, Festival Culture, and the Performative Sense
Chapter 1: Calderón de la Barca, Rubens, and Apollo’s Desire
Chapter 2: Antonio de Solís, Velázquez, and Minerva’s Competition
Chapter 3: Naples, Opera, and Parthenope’s Song
Chapter 4: Florence, Cavalli, and Ipermestra’s Choice
Chapter 5: Parades, Poetry, and Plus Ultra in Lima and Manila
Epilogue Making Sense of Spectacle
Index
Works Cited

Mary Quinn

Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV

Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image

De onderstaande tekst is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands en wordt in het Engels weergegeven.
This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. These celebrations allow us to interrogate the shifting uses of performance in the empire’s center and periphery. Such spectacles could work to contain and manipulate public sentiment, but at other moments they questioned sanctioned power structures. A study of zarzuela texts, opera libretti, notated music, paintings, poems, and historical documents shows that an array of people took advantage of this festive moment to question the empire’s policies in surprising ways. Sensorial experience played a crucial role during these celebrations. For its part, the Crown engaged a variety of senses, especially sight, sound, and smell, in order to augment the impact of royal spectacles. But simultaneously, those who questioned the Crown also did so through an engagement of the sensorial world.
Auteur

Mary Quinn

Mary B. Quinn (University of New Mexico) is the author of The Moor and the Novel: Narrating Absence in Early Modern Spain and co-editor of Aural Culture and Poetics in the Early Modern Hispanic World: Sound, Rhythm, and Music.