The Lavish Lovers: A Comedy Interspersed with Music and Ballet, Molière

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The Lavish Lovers: A Comedy Interspersed with Music and Ballet, MolièreOverview The Lavish Lovers, commissioned by Louis XIV to put on display all that theatre could offer, is an important example of the Sun Kings use of art as an instrument of government. Part ballet, part comedy, with music by Jean Baptiste Lully, it shows all the main trends of French court entertainments. The king was a true artistic collaborator; he specified the subject, the characters, and the setting. The roles of Neptune and Apollo were designed

Riccardo Fubini

actual or iconographic

Brian Merrilees is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Toronto and a specialist in Anglo-Norman language and literature and in medieval French lexicography

as well as his great impact as a teacher over a span of more than half a century

“‘Col publicamento del matrimonio sgannar ciascuno’: Marriage and Betrothal in Bandello’s Novelle”

She is author of A Voltaire for Russia: A

How it Should be Conducted (1531)

and on various aspects of stages of life and old age

“From Communal Ritual to Royal Spectacle: Some Observations on the Staging of Royal Entries (1450-1600)”

“Regional Intermarriage Among the Italian Nobility in the Sixteenth Century”

Appendices (contemporary texts about The Lavish Lovers and about seventeenth-century ideas and practice concerning dance and theatrical machinery)

Chapter 19

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