Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Corpus Based Approach
- Author: Ciambella, Fabio
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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