Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

A Corpus Based Approach

AvFabio Ciambella

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

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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 (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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-09
Mått:138 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367541194

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

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart IDancing in early modern England: A historical overview Continental and autochthonous sources for early modern dances in EnglandDancing at the Inns of CourtDiaries and annalsJohn 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 politicsPart IIDance 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 investigationThe VEP Early Modern Drama CollectionThe #Lancsbox software and lexical analysisWhich words to look forPart III Analysis: The lexicon of dance in early modern English plays: An annotated glossaryA – Almain/Allemand(e)B – Bergomask; Branle/BrawlC – Canary; Cinquepace/Sinkapace; Coranto/Courante; Country Dance; Cushion DanceD – DanceG – GalliardH – Hay; Horn(e/i)pipeJ – Jig/Gig/GigueL – (La)voltaM – Maypole Dance; Measure; Moresca/Morisco; Morris DanceP – Passamezzo; PavanR – Round(el)/Ring(let)ConclusionIndex