Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

A Corpus Based Approach

Fabio Ciambella (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

158 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-54047-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-54047-9 / 0367540479
ISBN-13	978-0-367-54047-0 / 9780367540470
Zustand	Neuware