The Ballet of the Second Empire

Author(s): Guest, Ivor

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Near Fine
Edition:	3rd Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Dance Books
Publication Year:	2014
Publication Place:	UK
ISBN:	9781852731717
Book ID:	000350
Catalogue(s):	Performance Arts and Plays

xvi, 279pp. Copious b/w illustrations. Indexed. There is a short, flat crease on the inner rear flap of the dust jacket, else fine throughout. First published in the 1950s in two volumes, this combined volume edition contains Ivor Guest's complete classic study of the ballet of the second empire. The Second Empire, an unjustly neglected phase of ballet history, is a continuation of the Romantic period. All the important figures are vividly brought to life - Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, Carolina Rosati, Amalia Ferraris and the brilliant but tragic Emma Livry - and set against the social, literary and artistic background of the time.

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