The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance
Lynsey McCulloch, "The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance "
English | ISBN: 0190498781 | 2019 | 632 pages | PDF | 51 MB
English | ISBN: 0190498781 | 2019 | 632 pages | PDF | 51 MB
Shakespeare's texts have a long and close relationship with many different types of dance, from dance forms referenced in the plays to adaptations across many genres today. With contributions from experienced and emerging scholars, this handbook provides a concise reference on dance as both an integral feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and as a means of translating Shakespearean text into movement - a process that raises questions of authorship and authority, cross-cultural communication, semantics, embodiment, and the relationship between word and image.
Motivated by growing interest in movement, materiality, and the body, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance is the first collection to examine the relationship between William Shakespeare - his life, works, and afterlife - and dance. In the handbook's first section - Shakespeare
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