Fabio Ciambella

Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (eBook, ePUB)

A Corpus Based Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000423570
• Artikelnr.: 61762285

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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