The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance

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 and Dance - authors consider dance within the context of early modern life and culture and investigate Shakespeare?s use of dance forms within his writing. The latter half of the handbook - Shakespeare as Dance - explores the ways that choreographers have adapted Shakespeare?s work. Chapters address everything from narrative ballet adaptations to dance in musicals, physical theater adaptations, and interpretations using non-Western dance forms such as Cambodian traditional dance or igal, an indigenous dance form from the southern Philippines. With a truly interdisciplinary approach, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance provides an indispensable resource for considerations of dance and corporeality on Shakespeare?s stage and the early modern era.

Foreword, Alan Brissenden
Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction, Lyndsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw
SECTION I: SHAKESPEARE AND DANCE
Section Introduction, Jennifer Nevile
1:"The heaven's true figure" or an "introit to all kin d of lewdness"? Competing Conceptions of Dancing in Shakespeare's England, Emily Winerock
2:Decoding Dance in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night, Nona Monahin
3:"When the play is done, you shall have a Jig or dance of all treads": Danced Endings on Shakespeare's Stage, Roger Clegg
4:"The revellers are entering": Shakespeare and Masquing Practice in Tudor and Stuart England, Anne Daye
5:We Are All Made: The Socioeconomics of The Two Noble Kinsmen's Anti-Masque Morris Dance, John R. Ziegler
6:The Merchant of Venice's Missing Masque: Absence, Touch, and Religious Residues, Lizzie Leopold
7:Shakespeare's Dancing Bodies: The Case of Romeo, Brandon Shaw
8:Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale, Steven Swarbrick
9:"The wisdom of your feet": Dance and Rhetoric on the Shakespearean Stage, Florence Hazrat
10:[They Dance]: Collaborative Authorship and Dance in Macbeth, Seth Stewart Williams
11:Dancing with the Archive: Early Dance for Shakespearean Adaptation, Evelyn O'Malley
SECTION II: SHAKESPEARE AS DANCE
Section Introduction, Margaret Jane Kidnie
12:Shakespeare, Modernism, and Dance, Susan Jones
13:Dance in the Broadway Musicals of Shakespeare: Balanchine, Holms, and Robbins, Ray Miller
14:"Thou art translated: Affinity, Emulation, and Translation in George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Amy Rodgers
15:"hildings and harlots": Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Lynsey McCulloch
16:, Shakespeare Ballets in Germany: From Jean-Georges Noverre to John Neumeier
17:"Therefore ha' done with words": Shakespeare and Innovative British Ballets, Elinor Parsons
18:Measure in Everything: Adapting Hamlet to the Contemporary Dance Stage, Elizabeth Klett
19: Hamlet, the Ballet: Examining a Choreographic Process, Jo Butterworth
20:Haunted by Hamlet: William Forsythe's Sider, Freya Vass- Rhee
21: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
22:Embodiment, Reciprocity, and Reception: Shakespeare Adaptations in a Black Atlantic Context, Ann E. Mazzocca and Denise Gillman
23:Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: Dance and Desire in the Sonnets, James Hewison
24:Incorporating the Text: John Farmanesh-Bocca's Pericles Redux and Crystal Pite's The Tempest Replica, Linda McJannet
25:"A delightful measure or a dance": Synetic Theater and Physical Shakespeare, Sheila T. Cavanagh
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index