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often followed performances of plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, but we know very little about the actual steps of this dance (see Baskerville).
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There is no known dancing instruction manual for English dances of Shakespeare's time, but there are descriptions of almains and the measures in the
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Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage, Scripts, Music, and Context
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among others. Some of the country dances Shakespeare mentions appear in John Playford's
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in church court and civic records (see Forrest), and large sections of dancing in court
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https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/shakespeare-jahrbuch/volume-156-2020-2/?lang=en
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The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675: A Dance Manual from Manuscript Sources
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The Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship Between Poetry and the Revels
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Dancing in the time and plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries
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Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporary: A Corpus-based Approach
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vol. 102, no. 1 (2020). Special issue on Shakespeare and Dance,
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Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
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vol. 157 (2021). Special issue on Shakespeare and Dance,
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The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England
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Index

dancing
William Shakespeare
galliard
volta
coranto
pavane
canario
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Macbeth
As You Like It
masque
masquerade ball
John Marston
Inns of Court
Morris dance
masques
Thoinot Arbeau
Fabritio Caroso
The English Dancing Master
Jigs

Will Kemp
Volta
Coranto
Galliard
old measures
Jig
Country footing

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