Cupid and Psyche: Narrative, Love and Politics in Seventeenth-Century French Court Ballet
This thesis investigates two seventeenth-century French court ballet adaptations of Apuleius' 'Cupid and Psyche': Le Ballet de la Reyne, tire de la fable de Psyche, performed at the court of Louis XIII in 1619; and Le Ballet de Psyche, ou la puissance de l'amour, staged in 1656 during the reign of Louis XIV. Its focus is the reinvention of la fable...