Compare Prices | Create Shopping Lists with Price Drop Alerts | Set Coupons, Promo Codes & Sales Alerts | Get Access to Exclusive Deals and Much More... All in One Place | Read all about it here

Shakespeare and the Dance

Shakespeare and the Dance

Brand
Springer Nature
Manufacturer
N/A
Part Number
0
GTIN
9780333285237
Condition
New
Product Description

Dancing was an essential part of life in Shakespeare's England. Town and country folk danced at weddings, Maydays and other festivities. Queen Elizabeth prided herself on her skill (and danced galliards in the morning to keep fit), and dancing was the soul of the extravagant masques which so delighted King James. Puritans might furiously denounce it but it was part of the ceremonial of the Inns of Court and a necessary accomplishment for a gentleman. At the same time, as Alan Brissenden shows in this book, the dance was an accepted symbol of harmony, and it was in this way that Shakespeare used it to express one of his major themes: the attempt to achieve order in a discordant world. He included it in at least a dozen of his plays and referred to it in thirty. A valuable source for his imagery, it also illuminates character and action and in some plays helps to forward the plot. In the history plays allusions to country dance, (especially the morris, and court dances like the lavolta)support ideas of conflict and the presentation of characters, especially Henry V. While there is no dancing itself in the histories there is plenty to be found in the comedies and two chapters of the book closely examine the relation of dance to dialogue, character and plot, particularly in "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Much Ado About Nothing." In the tragedies dancing becomes a powerful ironic visual symbol, especially in Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Timon of Athens. After 1607 dance occurs in almost all of Shakespeare's plays, in such a way that it reflects and expresses the fusion of tragic and comic elements which characterize most of them. The closing chapters show how the dance relates to the cosmic ideas and imagery of these last plays from Perides to Henry VIII and suggest certain influences from the spectacular court masques of the time. In presenting his argument the author, who is a dance critic as well as an Elizabethan scholar, has drawn on manuscript sources, a wide range of contemporary writing, including dance manuals, and his own ideas in dance and theatre. This is a book for students and scholars, for editors, for theatre directors and for those interested in Renaissance dance. It is a book for everyone who delights in the riches of Shakespeare and the age in which he lived.

Available Colors
Available Sizes
1 Offer Price Range: $169.99 - $169.99
BEST PRICE

Single Product Purchase

$169.99
@ Link.springer.com     BUY Now

Price Comparison

Seller Contact Seller List Price On Sale Shipping Best Promo Final Price Volume Discount Financing Availability Seller's Page
BEST PRICE
1 Product Purchase
@ Link.springer.com
Contact Store Call Store Contact Support
$169.99 $169.99

$169.99
See Site In stock Visit Store

Similar Products

The Pacific Insular Case of American Smoa

$159.99

Drugs in Adolescent Worlds

$48.00

Designforschung und Designwissenschaft

$89.99

Biomedical Engineering: Frontier Research and Converging Technologies

$129.00

Additive Manufacturing in Pharmaceuticals

$149.00

Research Methods in International Business

$149.00

Medienselektion im Alltag

$59.99

The Renaissance Extended Mind

$99.99

Computer Animation and Simulation 95

$54.99

Entanglement Measures and Their Properties in Quantum Field Theory

$64.99

NMR-Based Metabolomics

$129.00

The Practice of Surgical Pathology

$139.99

Abschreckung durch Strafe

$59.99

Algorithms - ESA 2009

$109.99

Shock, Sepsis, and Organ Failure

$84.99

Teacher Success Kit Grade 2: Tier 1

$499.97

History of Ophthalmology

$54.99

Triangle

$7.46

Video-Atlas of VATS Pulmonary Sublobar Resections

$139.00

Process Intensification Technologies for Biodiesel Production

$39.99

Financial Inclusion and Poverty Alleviation

$139.99

Mycobacteria Protocols

$219.99

British Romanticism and the Catholic Question

$54.99

Ms que durazno (Un libro original de Bellen Woodard) (More than Peach)

$6.74

Kooperationspraktiken zweier Ganztagsschulen im Spannungsfeld von Gemeinsamkeit und Differenz

$64.99

Signalverarbeitende Dioden

$69.99

The Physics of Skiing

$84.99

Irregular Verbs Grade 3 Differentiation Pack

$5.99

Market Failure in Training?

$109.99

Vergleichende Histologie

$49.99

Cardiac Arrhythmias: New Therapeutic Drugs and Devices

$129.00

Der Anti-Stress-Trainer fr Lehrer

$17.99

Inside Company Valuation

$54.99

Tipps und Tricks fr den Ansthesisten

$19.99

Die Agonszenen bei Euripides

$39.99

The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England

$39.99

Literaturfhrer: Parlamentarische Demokratie

$59.99

Third Wave Feminism

$109.99

Software Quality: The Complexity and Challenges of Software Engineering and Software Quality in the

$54.99

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

$16.99