Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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

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