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- Title
Majestic Drag: Monarchical Performativity and the King's Body Theatrical.
- Authors
Franko, Mark
- Abstract
Two Bourbon kings, Louis XIII and XIV,were ballet dancers. What were the aesthetic, political, and ritual functions of court ballet? Did the monarch's stage appearances sustain his political identity? Franko argues that dance and music, rather than reinforcing, in their blatant magnificence, the political message of power's presence, were actually the formally subversive means through which the performance sustained the ambiguity and contradiction of personal sovereignty.
- Subjects
CRITICAL theory; MODERN philosophy; PERFORMATIVE (Philosophy); MONARCHY; KINGS &; rulers
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2003, Vol 47, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1162/105420403321921247