Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV: Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image

by Mary Quinn

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Pr spero, 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048563054
• ISBN13: 9789048563050
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 202 Pages