The King as a “Maker” of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I: Early Modern Variations
6. Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648 11
7. Speсtacularity before the “Renaissance” of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy 30
8. Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations 45
9. Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 65
10. “Dressed for life’s short comedy”: Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare’s Plays 77
11. The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes – Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal 101
12. The King as a “Maker” of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV 116
13. War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances 133
14. Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria 143
15. II: The Romantic Turn
16. Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling’s Philosophy 159
17. The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception 168
18. Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin 191
19. Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky 207
20. III: Twentieth-Century Experimentations and Theoretical Explorations
21. The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco 217
22. Chico Buarque’s Gota d’água, uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964–1985 238
23. From theatrum mundi to Theatricality 253
24. Notes on Contributors 264