The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and dance / edited by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw.

Shakespeare's employment of dance as both a theatrical device and thematic reference point remains under-studied. The reimagining of his writing as dance works is also neglected as a subject for research. Alan Brissenden's 1981 Shakespeare and the Dance remains the seminal text for those i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Handbooks Online)
Other Authors: McCulloch, Lynsey, 1974- (Editor), Shaw, Brandon, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
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Table of Contents:
  • Decoding Dance in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night / Nona Monahin
  • / Florence Hazrat
  • [They Dance]: Collaborative Authorship and Dance in Macbeth / Seth Stewart Williams
  • Dance in the Broadway Musicals of Shakespeare: Balanchine, Holms, and Robbins / Ray Miller
  • Shakespeare, Modernism and Dance / Susan Jones
  • / Elinor Parsons
  • / Lynsey McCulloch
  • / Amy Rodgers
  • Measure in Everything: Adapting Hamlet to the Contemporary Dance Stage / Elizabeth Klett
  • Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: Dance and Desire in the Sonnets / James Hewison
  • / Emily Winerock
  • "A delightful measure or a dance": Synetic Theatre and Physical Shakespeare / Sheila T. Cavanagh
  • Hamlet, the Ballet: Examining a Choreographic Process / Jo Butterworth
  • Incorporating the Text: John Farmanesh-Bocca's Pericles Redux and Crystal Pite's The Tempest Replica / Linda McJannet
  • Haunted by Hamlet: William Forsythe's Sider / Freya Vass-Rhee
  • Embodiment, Reciprocity, and Reception: Shakespeare Adaptations in a Black Atlantic Context / Ann E. Mazzocca, Denise Gillman
  • 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
  • Shakespeare Ballets in Germany: from Jean-Georges Noverre to John Neumeier / Julia Bührle
  • Part I Introduction / Jennifer Nevile
  • "When the play is done, you shall have a Jig or dance of all treads": Danced Endings on Shakespeare's Stage / Roger Clegg
  • Part II Introduction / Margaret Jane Kidnie
  • INTRODUCTION / Lynsey McCulloch, Brandon Shaw
  • "The revellers are entering": Shakespeare and masquing practice in Tudor and Stuart England / Anne Daye
  • The Merchant of Venice's Missing Masque: Absence, Touch, and Religious Residues / Lizzie Leopold
  • We Are All Made: The Socioeconomics of The Two Noble Kinsmen's Anti-Masque Morris Dance / John R. Ziegler
  • Dancing with the Archive: Early Dance for Shakespearean Adaptation / Evelyn O'Malley
  • Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale / Steven Swarbrick
  • Shakespeare's Dancing Bodies: The Case of Romeo / Brandon Shaw.