Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV

Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18592-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World

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 A study of zarzuela texts, opera libretti, notated music, paintings, poems, and historical documents shows that an array of people took advantage of this festive moment to question the empire’s policies in surprising ways.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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinn, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.