Routledge The Dances of Shakespeare

Invaluable advice on how to perform authentic dance styles from Shakespeare's time, covering all the styles featured in his plays as well as a number of dances of a similar vein. Designed for the practicing director, choreographer or actor, this book provides clear instructions on how to perform the popular dances of Shakespeare's day including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances and roundels. Illustrated throughout, these instructions allow non-specialists to gain enough technique to perform a convincing and attractive production up to semi-professional level. Features include a chronological listing of dances, as well as an appendix of plays grouped by dances called for in the script, and suggestions for appropriate dances of different tones. Altogether, this lively guide is a must-have book for everyone interested in staging the works of Shakespeare or his contemporaries.