Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon, but also the Bard's contemporaries, the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure.

Autorentext

Fabio Ciambella is a Research fellow at Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

Dancing in early modern England: A historical overview

1. Continental and autochthonous sources for early modern dances in England Dancing at the Inns of Court

Diaries and annals

John Playford's The English Dancing Master (1651)

1. Salome vs David: The early modern querelle on dance between Neoplatonists and Puritans

2. Folk and courtly dances

3. From Elizabeth to Charles, through James: Dance and politics Part II

   Dance and/as language: State of the art and methodological issues

4. A language for dance: Dance as language

5. Language about dance: Matters of textual and corpus linguistics

6. Early modern English lexicography: Limiting the scope

7. Corpus selection and investigation The VEP Early Modern Drama Collection

The #Lancsbox software and lexical analysis

Which words to look for

Part III

Analysis: The lexicon of dance in early modern English plays: An annotated glossary

A Almain/Allemand(e)

B Bergomask; Branle/Brawl

C Canary; Cinquepace/Sinkapace; Coranto/Courante; Country Dance; Cushion Dance

D Dance

G Galliard

H Hay; Horn(e/i)pipe

J Jig/Gig/Gigue

L (La)volta

M Maypole Dance; Measure; Moresca/Morisco; Morris Dance

P Passamezzo; Pavan

R Round(el)/Ring(let)

Conclusion

Index