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Most
of the following are primary resources for the study
of Shakespearean dance; some are my transcriptions
or dance-relevant excerpts I have compiled; others
are links to texts posted on other sites. Please see
Shakespearean
Dance Links for secondary resources on other sites.
Table
of Contents
Biographies, Autobiographies,
and Private Correspondence
Dancing Manuals and Choreographic
Descriptions
Conduct and Education Guides
Dramatic Works
Legislation and Regulations
Literary Works
Miscellaneous
Religious and Moral Treatises
Biographies,
Autobiographies, and Private Correspondence
Herbert,
Edward. The Autobiography of Edward, Lord
Herbert of Cherbury. c1643. Ed. Sidney Lee. London:
George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1886, 1906.
Dance-related
passages. Lord Herbert's autbiography, published
posthumously. Mentions various dance events and includes
Lord Herbert's recommendation of dancing as a suitable
activity for a gentleman.
Langdale,
Josiah. 'Some
Account of the Birth, Education and Religious Exercises
and Visitations of God to that faithful Servant and
Minister of Jesus Christ, Josiah Langdale.'
17th century. Metaphorical
mention of dancing.
Dancing
Manuals and Choreographic Descriptions (15th-17th centuries)
Anonymous.
"Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche"
(c. 1495). (link
to transcription). An early dancing manual.
Anonymous.
"Basse Danse choreographies in the Salisbury
manuscript" (c. 1497). (link
to transcription). An early dancing manual.
For
transcriptions by Joseph Casazza, Lieven Baert, and
others, see Renaissance
Dance Sources.
For facsimiles of dancing manuals, see the Library
of Congress's
Burgundian Dance in the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance
Dance, Transition
From Renaissance Dance To Baroque Dance, and
Baroque
Dance.
Conduct
and Education Guides
Ascham,
Roger.The
Scholemaster . 1570. Ed. Judy Boss. 1998. Dance-related
passages. An educational handbook that discusses
dancing.
Breton,
Nicholas. "Necessary
Notes for a Courtier". 1618. An
appendix to The
Court and Country, or A Briefe Discourse betweene
the Courtier and Country-man; of the Manner, Nature,
and Condition of their liues (London, 1618).
From W. C. Hazlitt (ed.), Inedited Tracts
(New York, 1868). A FAQ sheet for the courtier mentioning
dancing.
Breton,
Nicholas. No Whippinge, nor Trippinge: But
a Kinde Friendly Snippinge. 1601. Preface by
Charles
Edmonds. London: Chiswick Press (Isham Reprints),
1895.
(link
to whole text -- large
images).
Castiglione,
Baldesare.Il
Cortegiano. 1528. Translated in 1561 by Sir Thomas
Hoby as The Book of the Courtier. (link
to whole text). conduct manual with sections
pertaining to dancing.
Cleland,
James.The Institution of a Young Noble Man.
Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1607, 1611, 1612. introduction
by Max Molyneux. New York: Scholars' Facsimiles &
Reprints, 1948. Vol. 1. Dance-related
passages. An educational handbook that discusses
dancing.
Elyot,
Sir Thomas. The Boke named the Governour.
1531. Ed. Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. 1998. Chapters
XIX-XXV specifically address dancing. (link
to whole text). An educational handbook that
discusses dancing in great detail.
Faret,
Nicholas.
The Honest Man: or, the Art to Please in Court.
Translated 1632. Dance-related
passages. A conduct manual with sections pertaining
to dancing.
Mulcaster,
Richard. The Training Up Of Children.
Facsimilie reprint. Amsterdam, New York: De Capo
Press, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., 1971. STC:
18253. Dance-related
passages. An educational handbook that discusses
dancing.
Dramatic
Works
Lupton,
Thomas. All for money. Plainly representing
the maners of men, and fashion of the world noweadayes,
1578. Dance-related
passages. Metaphorical
mention of dancing.
Legislation
and Regulations
Hooker,
John. Orders
enacted for orphans and for their portions within
the citie of Excester with sundry other instructions
incident to the same. Collected and set foorth by
Iohn Vowell alias Hooker gentleman and chamberlaine
of the same citie, 1575. Dance-related
passages. Metaphorical mention of dancing (galliard
and pavane).
In
progress! Stationers'
Register -- a list of titles registered that
refer to dancing or similar entertainments.
Literary
Works
Kemp,
William. Kemps nine daies wonder, performed
in a daunce from London to Norwich. 1600. Ed.
Richard Bear. 2000. (link
to whole text). Autobiographical account of dance
marathon fundraiser by the famous actor and clown.
Miscellaneous
Browne,
Thomas. Religio Medici. (Written circa
1635, published surreptitiously 1642, authorized
edition published 1643.) Dance-related
passages. Metaphorical
mention of dancing (galliard).
Buck,
Sir George. 'Of
Orchestice, or the Art of Dancing' in
The Third Universitie of England,
an appendix to John Stow's The
Annales, Or Generall Chronicle of England finished
and edited by Edmond Howes. London: Thomas Adams,
1615. With other dance-related
passages. A section on dancing included in a
larger survey of English universities and education.
Douce,
Francis. Illustrations
of Shakspeare and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations
on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on the Collection
of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on
the English Morris Dance.
London:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
A nineteenth-century scholar's discussion of morris
dance.
Florio,
John. Queen Anna's New World of Words, or
Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues.
1611. Dance-related
passages. An Italian-English dictionary containing
several dance terms.
Merbecke, John. A
Booke of Notes and Common Places, 1581.
Dance-related
passages. A collection of quotes and observations
on a wide range of moral and religious topics, arranged
alphabetically, with small section devoted to dancing.
Rid,
Samuel. The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine.
Facsimilie reprint. Amsterdam, Norwood, NJ: Walter
J. Johnson, Inc.; Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd.,
1974. Dance-related
passages. A magic trick manual mentioning dance.
Religious
and Moral Treatises
Anonymous.
A
Treatise of daunses, wherin it is shewed, that they
are as it were accessories and depedants (or thinges
annexed) to whoredome: where also by the way is touched
and proued, that playes are ioyned and knit togeather
in a rancke or rowe with them. Arthur Freeman
(ed.), reprint. New York: Garland, 1974. An antidance
treatise.
Babington,
Gervase. A very fruitfull exposition of the
Commaundements by way of questions and answeres for
greater plainnesse together with an application of
euery one to the soule and conscience of man, profitable
for all, and especially for them that (beeing not
otherwise furnished) are yet desirous both to see
themselues, and to deliuer to others some larger
speech of euery point that is but briefly named in
the shorter catechismes. London: Henry Midlleton
for Thomas Charde, 1583. Dance-related
passages. Exposition of the Ten Commandments,
with dancing violating the 4th and 7th commandments
in particular.
Gosson,
Stephen. "The horrible Vice of pestiferous
dancing" in The Shoole of Abuse, containing
a peasaunt invective against poets, pipers, plaiers,
jesters and such like caterpillers of a commonwealth
(1579). (link
to whole text). A treatise discussing the pros
and cons of dancing, among other recreations.
In
progress! Fetherstone,
Christopher. A
dialogue agaynst light, lewde, and lasciuious dauncing
wherin are refuted all those reasons, which the common
people vse to bring in defence thereof. (1582).
(link
to whole text -- page by page facsimile of original).
A treatise discussing the pros and cons of dancing.
Lovell,
Thomas. A dialogue between custom and veritie
concerning the vse and abuse of dauncing and minstrelsie
(1581). (link
to whole text -- page by page facsimile of original).
A treatise discussing the pros and cons of dancing.
Lowin,
John. Conclusions vpon dances, both of this
age, and of the olde. Newly composed and set forth,
by an out-landish doctor. 1607. (link
to whole text). A treatise discussing
the pros and cons of dancing.
________. Brief conclusions of dancers and dancing
Condemning the prophane vse thereof; and commending
the excellencie of such persons which haue from age
to age, in all solemne feasts, and victorious triumphs,
vsed that (no lesse) honourable, commendable and
laudable recreation: as also true physicall obseruations
for the preseruation of the body in health, by the
vse of the same exercise. 1609. Reissue of Conclusions
upon dances, both of this age, and of the olde.
(link
to whole text). A treatise discussing the pros
and cons of dancing.
Northbrooke,
John.
Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A treatise
wherein dicing, dancing, vaine playes or enterludes
with other idle pastimes &c. commonly used on
the Sabboth day, are reproved by the Authoritie of
the word of God and auntient writers (1577).
(link
to whole text -- page by page facsimile of original).
A treatise discussing the pros and cons of dancing.
Stubbes,
Phillip. The Anatomie of Abuses (1583),
London: New Shakespeare Society reprint, 1877-1879.
Dance-related
passages. (link
to whole text -- download PDF files). A treatise
discussing the pros and cons of dancing among other
recreations.
Table
of Contents
Biographies, Autobiographies,
and Private Correspondence
Dancing Manuals and Choreographic
Descriptions
Conduct and Education Guides
Dramatic Works
Legislation and Regulations
Literary Works
Miscellaneous
Religious and Moral Treatises
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