Fabio Ciambella

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

A Corpus Based Approach

• Format: PDF

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: 9781000423556
• Artikelnr.: 61762292

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