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Dance and Dance-Related Publications

England

Baskervill, Charles Read. The Elizabethan Jig and Related Song Drama. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1929, 1965.

Brissenden, Alan. Shakespeare and the Dance. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981.

Cunningham, James. Dancing in the Inns of Court. London: Jordan & Sons, Ltd., 1965.

Elliott, John R. Jr, & Alan Nelson (University); Alexandra Johnston & Diana Wyatt (City) eds. Records of Early English Drama: Oxford. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Forrest, John. The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1999.

Goring, Jeremy. Godly Exercises or the Devil's Dance?: Puritanism and Popular Culture in pre-Civil War England. London: Friends of Dr. William's Library, 1983.

Holman, Peter. Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Howard, Skiles. The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England. Amherst, 1998.

Hutton, Ronald. The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 1996.

Montagut, B. de. Louange de la Danse. Ed. Barbara Ravelhofer. 1623. Cambridge: RTM
Publications, 2000. (written in French, but dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham)

Nelson, Alan, ed. Records of Early English Drama: Cambridge. 2 vols. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1989.

Payne, Ian. The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675: A Dance Manual from Manuscript Sources. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003.

Pennino-Baskerville, Mary. "Terpsichore Reviled: Andidance Tracts in Elizabethan England."
Sixteenth Century Journal 22.3 (Fall 1991): 475-494.

Semenza, Gregory M. Colón. Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance.
Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Smith, Judy, and Ian Gatiss. "What Did Prince Henry Do with His Feet on Sunday 19 August
1604?" Early Music 14.2 (May 1986): 198-202, 205-207.

Walls, Peter. Music in the English Courtly Masque 1604-1640. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Ward, John. "The olde Measures." Records of Early Drama Newsletter 18.1 (1993): 2-21.

Welsford, Enid. The Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship between Poetry & The Revels. Cambridge: Russell & Russell Inc., 1962.

Wienpahl, Robert. Music at the Inns of Court: During the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1979.

Wilson, David R. "The Old Measures and the Inns of Court: a note." Historical Dance 3.3 (1994): 24.

Europe

Arbeau, Thoinot [Jehan Tabourot]. Orchesography. Ed. Julia Sutton. Trans. Mary S. Evans.
Orchésographie 1589. New York: Dover, 1967.

Arcangeli, Alessandro. Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c. 1425-1675. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Brooks, Lynn Matluck. The Art of Dancing in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Juan de Esquivel
Navarro and His World. London: Associated University Presses, 2003.

Caroso, Fabritio. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the
"Nobilità di Dame" (1600). Ed. and trans. Julia Sutton. New York: Dover Publications, 1986, 1985.

Clive, H. P. "The Calvinists and the Question of Dancing in the 16th Century." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (1961), 296-323.

Franko, Mark. The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (c. 1416-1589). Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1986.

Nevile, Jennifer. The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Univeristy Press, 2004.

Santucci, Ercole. Mastro da Ballo. Ed. Barbara Sparti. 1614. Hildesheim: Olms, 2003.

Websites and Online Resources

"Renaissance Dance." http://www.rendance.org/ Ed. Andrew Draskóy.

"Shakespearean Dance." http://www.winerock.com/shakespeareandance/ Ed. Emily Winerock.

"The Bocardo," c.18th century, by John Flynn (1880-1951).
Part of a lantern slide lecture collection, 1926 in the Australian Inland Mission collection.