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The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and dance /

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With contributions from thirty leading scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance is the first collection of essays to examine the relationship between William Shakespeare, his life, works, afterlife and dance.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCulloch, Lynsey, 1974- (Editor), Shaw, Brandon, 1975- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Dance.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Dance in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • "The heaven's true figure" or an "introit to all kind of lewdness"?: competing conceptions of dancing in Shakespeare's England / Emily Winerock
  • Decoding dance in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night / Nona Monahin
  • "When the play is done, you shall have a Jig or dance of all treads": danced endings on Shakespeare's stage / Roger Clegg
  • "The revellers are entering": Shakespeare and masquing practice in Tudor and Stuart England / Anne Daye
  • We are all made: the socioeconomics of The Two Noble Kinsmen's anti-masque morris dance / John R. Ziegler
  • The Merchant of Venice's missing masque: absence, touch, and religious residues / Lizzie Leopold
  • Shakespeare's dancing bodies: the case of Romeo / Brandon Shaw
  • Dancing with Perdita: the choreography of lost time in the Winters Tale / Steven Swarbrick
  • "The wisdom of your feet": dance and rhetoric on the Shakespearean stage / Florence Hazrat
  • [They Dance]: Collaborative authorship and dance in Macbeth / Seth Stewart Williams
  • Dancing with the archive: early dance for Shakespearean adaptation / Evelyn O'Malley
  • Shakespeare, modernism, and dance / Susan Jones
  • Dance in the Broadway Musicals of Shakespeare: Balanchine, Holms, and Robbins / Ray Miller
  • "Thou art translated": affinity, emulation, and translation in George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream / Amy Rodgers
  • "Hildings and Harlots": Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet / Lynsey Mcculloch
  • Shakespeare Ballets in Germany: from Jean-Georges Noverre to John Neumeier / Iris Julia Bührle
  • "Therefore ha' done with words": Shakespeare and innovative British Ballets / Elinor Parsons
  • Measure in everything: adapting Hamlet to the Contemporary dance stage / Elizabeth Klett
  • Hamlet, the Ballet: examining a choreographic process / Jo Butterworth
  • Haunted by Hamlet: William Forsythe's Sider / FREYA VASS-RHEE
  • Dancing her Death: Dada Masilo's The Bitter End of Rosemary (2011) as a South African contemporary rethinking of Hamlet's Ophelia / Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel
  • Embodiment, reciprocity, and reception: Shakespeare adaptations in a black Atlantic context / Ann E. Mazzocca And DEnise Gillman
  • Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: Dance and desire in the sonnets / James Hewison
  • Incorporating the text: John Farmanesh-Bocca's Pericles Redux and Crystal Pite's The Tempest Replica / Linda Mcjannet
  • "A delightful measure or a dance": synetic theater and physical Shakespeare / Sheila T. Cavanagh.