Much Ado about Dancing

Anny Crunelle Vanrigh (1)

1 CREA (EA 370) - Centre de Recherches Anglophones

Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesography (1589) is a useful instrument to revisit the much-noted dance/love/marriage cluster in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. Contemporary treatises on dancing give new insights into the play's organization and gender discourse.

Domaines: Littératures; Linguistique; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Anny Crunelle Vanrigh. Much Ado about Dancing. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2017, 57 (2), pp.276--301. ⟨10.1353/sel.2017.0012⟩. ⟨hal-01640702⟩