Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

A Corpus Based Approach

Fabio Ciambella

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Routledge
09 January 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Dance; Shakespeare plays; Computer science

Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

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 (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most reﬁned Renaissance dance aﬁcionados), the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure.

As far as methods of analysis are concerned, corpora such as the VEP Early Modern Drama collection and EEBO, and corpus analysis tools such as #LancsBox are used in order to offer the widest range of examples possible from early modern plays and provide co-textual references for each dance. Examples from Renaissance playwrights are fundamental for the analysis of connotative meanings of the dances listed and their performative, poetic and metaphoric role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama.

This study will be of great interest to Renaissance researchers, lexicographers and dance historians.

By: Fabio Ciambella
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 199g
ISBN: 9780367541194
ISBN 10: 036754119X
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Dancing in early modern England: A historical overview 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) Salome vs David: The early modern querelle on dance between Neoplatonists and Puritans Folk and courtly dances From Elizabeth to Charles, through James: Dance and politics Part II Dance and/as language: State of the art and methodological issues A language for dance: Dance as language Language about dance: Matters of textual and corpus linguistics Early modern English lexicography: Limiting the scope 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

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