The Art That All Arts Do Approve: Manifestations of the Dance Impulse in High Renaissance Culture - Studies in Honour of Margaret M McGowan

Contents

• Editorial Introduction: Margaret M McGowan: Pioneer of Academic Dance Research
• The Barriers: from Combat to Dance (Almost), Sydney Anglo
• 'Rules for Design': Beauty and Grace in Caroso's Choreographies, Jennifer Nevile
• Fragment of the Sovereign as Hermaphrodite: Time, History, and the Exception in Le Ballet de Madame, Mark Franko
• Dancing Towards Death: Masques and Entertainments in London and Florence as precedents for Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women, J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring
• Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621), Barbara Ravelhofer
• From Tragicomedy to Epic: The Court Ballets of Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Marie-Claude Canova-Green
• Jean II Berain's Costume Designs for the Ballet Les Plaisirs de la Paix (1715), Jerome de la Gorce
• Into the Labyrinth: Kenneth MacMillan and his Ballets, Clement Crisp
• The Publications of Margaret M McGowan.