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Subject(s)

• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Knowledge—Dance [Browse]
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Dramatic production [Browse]
• Dance in literature [Browse]

Editor

• McCulloch, Lynsey, 1974- [Browse]
• Shaw, Brandon, 1975- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780190498788 ((hardcover))
• 0190498781 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2018013726

OCLC

1045162157

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