Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Corpus Based Approach

Contents

• 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