Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621)

Autor:	Barbara Ravelhofer
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Banquet Buckingham Visual Arts and Performing Arts Ballet media_common.quotation_subject Art history Art Visual arts Ballad Burlesque George (robot) Performance art Residence media_common
Zdroj:	Dance Research. 25:144-155
ISSN:	1750-0095 0264-2875
DOI:	10.3366/drs.2007.25.2.144
Popis:	In summer 1621, George Villiers, then Marquess of Buckingham, invited the king and an exclusive circle of courtiers to inaugurate his newly restored countryside residence Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland, Lincolnshire. On this occasion, he commissioned Ben Jonson with a masque, The Gypsies Metamorphos'd, in which he himself and various friends performed as dancing, pick-pocketing and palm-reading gipsies. The Gypsies Metamorphos'd was a risqué piece which experimented with innovative features, some of them outrageous. In particular, Jonson and his collaborators drew upon French-style ballet and banqueting fashions which they combined with traditional English music and song. This essay explains the reason for these artistic choices.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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