Gods of Play

Gods of PlayThis book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth century Europe. As an emblem of this interrelationship, the author has chosen the phenomenon of the "splendid festive performance" of spectacular plays and operas given at absolutist courts in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Versailles, and Vienna between 1631 and 1668. Gods of Play fills voids in the scholarly literature on the seventeenth century, on

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Ahmed Bedjaoui

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covering the topic in around 300 pages

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