1st Edition
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries A Corpus Based Approach
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
- 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
Part II
Dance and/as language: State of the art and methodological issues
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
Biography
Fabio Ciambella is a Research fellow at Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.
