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Montagut, Barthélemy de. Louange de la Danse. 1619. Edited by Barbara Ravelhofer. Cambridge, UK: RTM Publications, 2000.

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Nevile, Jennifer. Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

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Rainolds, John. Th’overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th’objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. [Middelburg,] 1599.

Sabol, Andrew J., ed. Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque. Brown University Press, 1982.

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[Shadwell, Thomas]. The Tempest, or, the Enchanted Island. London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1674.

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________. “Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami.” The New York Times, March 21, 2016.  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/arts/dance/review-balanchine-and-shakespeare-catch-some-waves-in-miami.html.

________. “Review: Dark Suspicions in Jumps and Gestures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’.” The New York Times, January 22, 2016.  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/arts/dance/review-dark-suspicions-in-jumps-and-gestures-in-the-winters-tale.html.

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________. “To Dance, Perchance to Dream: Shakespeare’s Plays are a Natural Fit with Dance.” The New York Times, March 30, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/arts/dance/shakespeares-plays-are-a-natural-fit-with-dance.html.

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Marsh, Christopher. Music and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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McCulloch, Lynsey. ‘“Here’s that shall make you dance”: movement and meaning in Bern: Ballett’s Julia und Romeo.” Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance, edited by Sarah Annes Brown, Robert I. Lublin, and Lynsey McCulloch, pp. 255-268. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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_____. “Wondrous Motion: Recovering Dance from The Tempest.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021): 13-30.

_____, and Brandon Shaw, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019.

McGee, Timothy J., ed., Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 30. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003.

• Kendall, G. Yvonne. “Ornamentation and Improvisation in Sixteenth-Century Dance.”
• Nevile, Jennifer. “Disorder in Order: Improvisation in Italian Choreographed Dances of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.”
• Sparti, Barbara. “Improvisation and Embellishment in Popular and Art Dances in Fifteenth- & Sixteenth-Century Italy.”

McGinnis, Katherine Tucker. “At Home in the ‘Casa del trombone’: A Social-Historical View of Milanese Dancing Masters.” In Proceedings of the 20th Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference (19-22 June 1997). Riverside, CA: Society of Dance History Scholars, 1997.

_____. “‘Face Time—Mask Time’: The Merging and Diverging of Public and Private Space in Sixteenth-Century Dance Practices.” In Virtute et arte del danzare: Contributi di storia della danza in onore di Barbara Sparti, edited by Alessandro Pomtremoli, pp. 83-97. Rome: ARACNE editrice, 2011.

_____. “Moving in High Circles: Courts, Dance, and Dancing Masters in Italy in the Long Sixteenth Century.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

McGowan, Margaret M. Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. [Regarding errors in this work, see Angene Feves’ review, “Renaissance Dance Scholarship: Read but Verify” in Dance Chronicle 32, no. 3 (2009): 499-504.]

McJannet, Linda. “A hall, a hall! Give room, and foot it, girls”: Realizing the Dance Scene in Romeo and Juliet on Film.” Borrowers and Lenders 10, no. 2 (2017). http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/783440/show.

________. “Embodying the Sea: Shakespeare and Physical Theatre.” In Shakespeare On Stage and Off. Edited by Kenneth Graham and Alysia Kolentsis, pp. 76-89. Montreal & Kingston, London, and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.

_____. “Movement, Music and Silence in Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale and Périclès, Prince de Tyr.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021): 141-161.

_____. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions: The Evolution of a Theatrical Code. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1999.

________, and Emily F. Winerock. “Dancing on Her Grave: Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroines on Film.” Dance Chronicle 39, no. 2 (2016): 56-76.

McManus, Clare. “Defacing the Carcass: Anna of Denmark and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness.” Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics, and the Jonsonian Canon, ed. Julie Sanders, Kate Chedgzoy and Susan Wiseman, pp. 93–113. New York: St. Martin’s Press-now Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.

_____. Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

_____. Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590-1619. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.

McManus, Clare, and Lucy Munro. “Renaissance Women’s Performance and the Dramatic Canon: Theater History, Evidence, and Narratives” — a special issue. Shakespeare Bulletin 33, no. 1 (2015). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/31613.

McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Meagher, John C. “The Dance and the Masques of Ben Jonson.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25 (1962): 258-277.

Meskill, Lynn Sermin. “Exorcising the Gorgon of Terror: Jonson’s Masque of Queens.” English Literary History 72, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 181–207.

Mickel, Lesley. Ben Jonson’s Antimasques: a History of Growth and Decline. Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.

_____. “Glorious Spangs and Rich Embroidery: Costume in The Masque of Blackness and Hymenaei.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 36, no. 2 (2003): 41–59.

Miller, Lynneth. “Divine Punishment or Disease? Medieval and Early Modern Approaches to the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague.” Dance Research Journal 35, no. 2 (November 2017): 149-164.

_____. “‘Satan Danced in the Person of the Damsel’: Dance, Sacrilege, and Gender, 1280-1640.” PhD diss., Baylor University, 2018.

Mirabella, Bella. “‘In the Sight of All:’ Queen Elizabeth and the Dance of Diplomacy.” Early Theatre 15, no. 1 (2012): 65-89.

_____. “Stealing Center Stage: Female Mountebanks, Pseudoscience and Non-Professional Theater.” English Language Notes 47, no. 2 (2009): 35-47.

Monahin, Nona. “Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet: Some Consequences of the ‘Happy Ending’.” Borrowers and Lenders 10, no. 2 (2017). https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/borrowers/article/view/2419/2506.

_____. “Writing for Posterity: A Reassessment of Arbeau’s Orchésographie (1589).” In Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings (13-16 November 2014), compiled by Helen Thomas, Rebekah Chappell, and Erin Donahue, pp. 125-135. Congress on Research in Dance, 2015.

________, and Christian Rogowski. “Text, Music, Dance: Conflicting Allegiances in Angelin Preljocaj’s Roméo et Juliette.” In Dance Studies Association Conference Proceedings (5-8 July 2018), compiled by Courtney Harris, pp. 66-77. Dance Studies Association, 2018.

Morgan, Jennifer M. “Death, War, Dance, and Discovery: The Representation of Percussion Instruments in Medieval and Early Modern French Literature.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2018.

Morris, Ann Pleiss. “The Queen’s Masques: Rethinking Jacobean Masques and an English Feminine Theater.” Philological Quarterly 97, no. 4 (2018): 467-480.

Mullally, Robert. “More about the Measures.” Early Music 22, no. 2 (1994): 414-438.

_____. “Measure as a Choreographic Term in the Stuart Masque.” Dance Research 16, no. 1 (Summer 1998): 67-73.

Mzezewa, Tariro. “What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet?” The New York Times, February 5, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/arts/dance/nashville-ballet-shakespeare-lucy-negro.html.

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Naylor, Edward W. Shakespeare and Music, with Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1896.

Nevile, Jennifer. “Choreography and Meaning in Renaissance Danced Spectacles: A Catalyst for Discussion.” Historical Dance 4, no. 2 (2012): 29-33. https://historicaldance.org.uk/jnl/pdf/HistDance-2012-V4N2-pp29-33-Nevile.pdf.

_____. “Dance in Early Tudor England: An Italian Connection?” Early Music 26, no. 2 (1998): 230-234, 237-242, 244.

_____. “Decorum and Desire: Dance in Renaissance Europe and the Maturation of a Discipline.” Renaissance Quarterly 68, no. 2 (2015): 597-612.

_____. The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

_____. Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

_____. “Learning the Bassadanza from a Wolf: Andrea Calmo and Dance.” Dance Research 30, no. 1 (2012): 80-97.

_____. “‘Rules for Design’: Beauty and Grace in Caroso’s Choreographies.” Dance Research 25, no. 2 (2007): 107-118. https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2007.25.2.107.

_____, ed., Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Norbrook, David. “‘The Masque of Truth’: Court Entertainments and International Protestant Politics in the Early Stuart Period.” The Seventeenth Century 1, no. 2 (July 1986): 81–110.

Normand, Lawrence. “Witches, King James, and The Masque of Queens.” Representing Women in Renaissance England, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, pp. 107–20. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.

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Oh, Elisa. “‘In Motion Swift and Even’: Perpetual Motion and Othering in Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness and The Masque of Beauty.” Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, December 8, 2014. http://www.clemson.edu/upstart/Essays/oh_motion/oh_motion.xhtml.

Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975.

_____. “Jonson and the Amazons.” Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, ed. Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katharine Eisaman Maus, pp. 119–39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

_____. The Jonsonian Masque. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Ortiz, Joseph M. Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.

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Packard, Rachel. “Dancing Along the Tightrope of Leisure: Puritans and Dance in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.” MA thesis, University of New Mexico, 2012.

Palmer, Barbara D. “Court and Country: the Masque as Sociopolitical Subtext.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews 7 (1995): 338–54.

Parolin, Peter. “‘If I had begun to dance’: Women’s Performance in Kemps Nine Daies Wonder.” Early Theatre 15, no. 1 (2012): 45-63.

Parry, Caroline Balderston. “‘The Maypole is up, now give me the cup…’.” REED Newsletter 11, no. 1 (1986): 7-9.

Parry, Graham. “The Politics of the Jacobean Masque.” Theatre and Government under the Early Stuarts, ed. J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Parsons, Elinor. “An Inexplicable Dumbshow? Narrative Innovation in Robert Helpmann’s Hamlet (1942).” Australian Studies 4 (2012). Web archive copy.

_____. “‘Struts and frets’: Physical eloquence in Vladimir Vasiliev’s Macbeth.” In Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth, edited by Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, and Victoria Bladen, pp. 365-378. Rouen: Publications de l’Université de Rouen et du Havre, 2013.

_____. “‘Therefore ha’ done with words’: Shakespeare and Innovative British Ballets. In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, edited by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw, pp. 387-404. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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

Pennino- Baskerville, Mary. “Terpsichore Reviled: Antidance Tracts in Elizabethan England.” Sixteenth Century Journal 22, no. 3 (1991): 475-494.

Pfandl-Buchegger, Ingrid. “The Performing Body in Renaissance Literature and Dance.” Anglia Journal of English Philogy 132, no. 1 (2014): 23-39.

_____, and Gudrun Rottensteiner. “Metareferentiality in early dance: the Jacobean antimasque.” Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies, edited by Werner Wolf, pp. 469-498. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

Plank, Steven. “‘And Now about the Cauldron Sing’: Music and the Supernatural on the Restoration Stage.” Early Music 18, no. 3 (1990): 392-407.

Pollard, Tanya. Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Pontremoli, Alessandro, ed. “Virtue et arte del danzare”: Contributi di storia della danza in onore di Barbara Sparti. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2011.

• Arcangeli, Alessandro. “Renaissance Dance and Writing: the Case of Arcangelo Tuccaro,” pp. 39-48.
• Harris-Warrick, Rebecca. “Naturalizing Novelty: Italian Opera as Parisian Audiences Saw It in 1729,” pp. 165-179.
• Heller, Wendy. “Ermiona and the Ballo dei beozi (1636): A Padovan Legacy for Benetian Theatrical Dance,” pp. 115-131.
• McGinnis, Katherine Tucker. “‘Face Time-Mask Time’: The Merging and Diverging of Public and Private Space in Sixteenth-Century Dance Practices,” pp. 83-97.
• Note: Additional essays are in Italian.

Pruiksma, Rose. “Of Dancing Girls and Sarabandes: Music, Dance, and Desire in Court Ballet, 1651-1669.” The Journal of Musicology 35, no. 2 (2018): 145-182.

Pugliese, Patri J. “Why Not Dolmetsch?” Dance Research 13, no. 2 (1981): 21-24.

Pugliese, Patri J., and Joseph Casazza. “Practise for Dauncinge,” 1980, 1999. http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeryeh4/dance/Practise%20for%20Dauncinge.html.

Prange, Gerda. “Shakespeares Äußerungen über die Tänze seiner Zeit.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 89 (1953): 132-161.


Pyron, Mary Virginia. “‘Sundry Measures’: Dance in Renaissance Comedy.” PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 1987.

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Ranum, Patricia. “Audible Rhetoric and Mute Rhetoric: The 17th-century French Sarabande.” Early Music 14, no. 1 (1986): 22-40.

Ravelhofer, Barbara. “Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621).” Dance Research 25, no. 2 (2007): 144-155. https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2007.25.2.144.

_____. “Dance.” Ben Jonson in Context, edited by Julie Sanders, pp. 171-180. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

_____.  “Dancing at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.” In Queen Elizabeth I: Past and Present, edited by Christa Jansohn, pp. 101-115. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004.

_____. The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

_____.  “Middleton and dance.” The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, edited by G. Taylor and T. Henley, pp. 130-147. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

_____. “Queen Henrietta Maria’s Dramatic Activities.” In Heroines of the Golden Stage: Women and Drama in Spain and England, 1500-1700, edited by Rina Walthau and Marguérite Corporaal, pp. 129-142. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2007.

_____. “Shakespeare and Dance.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021): 13-30.

_____. “‘Virgin Wax’ and ‘Hairy Men-Monsters’: Unstable Movement Codes in the Stuart Masque.” In The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, edited by David Bevington and Peter Holbrook, pp. 244-272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Rebhorn, Wayne A. Courtly Performances: Masking and Festivity in Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978.

Reid, Lindsay Ann. “The (lost) tune of ‘Raging Love’ and its reverberations in Isabella Whitney’s Copy of a Letter.” Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 102, no. 1 (2020): 103-120.

Reimers, Sara, and Richard Schoch. “Performing Restoration Shakespeare Today : Staging Davenant’s Macbeth.” Shakespeare Bulletin 37, no. 4 (2019): 467-489.

Reiter, Susan. “A Street Smart ‘Romeo + Juliet.” Review of New York City Ballet’s “Romeo + Juliet.”  DanceviewTimes 5, no. 18 (2007). http://archives.danceviewtimes.com/2007/Spring/06/nycb6.html.

Rinehart, Lisa. “Get Real.” Review of Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare.” DanceviewTimes, May 21, 2009. http://www.danceviewtimes.com/2009/05/get-real.html.

Robertson, Karen. “Pocahontas at the Masque.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 21, no. 3 (1996): 551–583.

Rodgers, Amy J. “Creation Myths: Inspiration, Collaboration, and the Genesis of Romeo and Juliet.” Borrowers and Lenders 10, no. 2 (2017). https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/borrowers/article/view/2417/2502.

_____. A Monster with a Thousand Hands: The Discursive Spectator in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. (BookFinder)

Rygg, Kristin. Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater and its Pythagorean Subtext. Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, 2000.

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Salmen, Walter. “Dances and Dance Music, c. 1300–1530.” In New Oxford History of Music, vol. 3.1, edited by Reinhard Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn, 162-190. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Savage, Roger. “Rameau’s American Dancers.” Early Music 11, no. 4 (1983): 441-452.

Schoch, Richard W. “(Im)pressing Texts and Spectacular Performance: the Quarrel between Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones.” Constructions 9 (1994): 1–12.

Schwarz, Kathryn. “Amazon Reflections in the Jacobean Queen’s Masque.” Studies in English Literature 35, no. 2 (1995): 293–309.

Scolieri, Paul A. Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

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

Semmens, Richard. “A Sorcerer’s Apprentice? John Weaver’s Comic Muse.” In Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings (13-16 November 2014), compiled by Helen Thomas, Rebekah Chappell, and Erin Donahue, pp. 160-167. Congress on Research in Dance, 2015.

Shaw, Brandon. “Effacing Rebellion and Righting the Slanted: Declassifying the Archive of MacMillan’s (1965) and Shakespeare’s (1597) Romeo and Juliets.” Dance Research Journal 49, no. 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767717000201.

Shaw, Catherine M. “The Tempest and Hymenaei.” Cahiers Elisabéthains 26 (1984): 29–39.

Shewring, Margaret, and J. R. Mulryne. “Dancing Towards Death: Masques and Entertainments in London and Florence as precedents for Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women.” Dance Research 25, no. 2 (2007): 134-143. https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2007.25.2.134.

Siddiqi, Yumna. “Dark Incontinents: the Discourse of Race and Gender in Three Renaissance Masques.” Renaissance Drama 23 (1992): 139–63.

Smid, Deanna. “Spoken song and imagined music in Cymbeline.” Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 102, no. 1 (2020): 87-102.

Smith, Irwin. “Ariel and the Masque in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly 21 (1970): 213–23.

Smith, Judy. “The Art of Good Dancing—Noble Birth and Skilled Nonchalance. England 1580-1630.” Historical Dance 2, no. 5 (1986/7): 30-32.

Smith, Judy, and Ian Gatiss. “What Did Prince Henry Do with His Feet on Sunday 19 August 1604?” Early Music 14, no. 2 (1986): 198-207.

Smith, William Michael. “Aftermath: Dominic Walsh Dance Theater’s Titus Andronicus, with Two Star Symphony, at Hobby Center’s Zilkha Theater” Houston Press, Oct. 17, 2008. www.houstonpress.com/music/aftermath-dominic-walsh-dance-theaters-titus-andronicus-with-two-star-symphony-at-hobby-centers-zilkha-theater-6530964.

Sokolova, Alla V. “The Court Culture in France, Italy and England in 16-17th Centuries: Interaction and Mutual Influence.” Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of History Culture and Art Research) 9, no. 4 (2020): 134-145.

Sorell, Walter. “Shakespeare and the Dance.” Shakespeare Quarterly 8, no. 3 (1957): 367-384.

Sparti, Barbara. “Antiquity as Inspiration in the Renaissance of Dance: The Classical Connection and Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance.” Dance Chronicle 16, no. 3 (1993): 373-390.

_____. “‘Artistic’ Theory of Dance in Fifteenth-Century Italy.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 35 (2003): 183-185.

_____. “Breaking Down Barriers in the Study of Renaissance and Baroque Dance.” Dance Chronicle 19, no. 3 (1996): 255-276.

_____. Dance, Dancers, and Dance-masters in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Bologna: Massimiliano Piretti Editore, 2015.

_____. “The 15th-century balli Tunes: A New Look.” Early Music 14, no. 3 (1986): 346-357.

_____. “What Can Pictures Tell Us (and Not Tell Us) about Dance? Reading Italian Renaissance Iconography.” In Proceedings of the 20th Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference (19-22 June 1997). Riverside, CA: Society of Dance History Scholars, 1997.

Sponsler, Claire. “Writing the Unwritten: Morris Dance and Theatre History.” In Representing the Past: Essays in Performance History, eds. Charlotte M. Canning and Thomas Postlewait, 84-113. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Steele, M. S. Plays & Masques at Court during the Reigns of Elizabeth, James and Charles. New York: Russell & Russell, 1926, 1968.

Stevens, Andrea. “Mastering Masques of Blackness: Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, The Windsor text of The Gypsies Metamorphosed, and Brome’s The English Moor.” English Literary Renaissance 39, no. 2 (2009): 396-426.

Stokes, James. “The Ongoing Exploration of Women and Performance in Early Modern England: Evidences, Issues, and Questions.” Shakespeare Bulletin 33, no. 1 (2015): 9-31.

Stokes, James, and Ingrid Brainard. “‘The olde Measures’ in the West Country: John Willoughby’s manuscript.” Records of Early English Drama Newsletter 17, no. 2 (1992): 1-10.

Streitberger, W. R. The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I’s Court Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Strong, Roy. Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

Sutton, Julia. “Cadential Formulae in Music and Dance in Sixteenth-Century Italy.” In Proceedings of the 20th Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference (19-22 June 1997). Riverside, CA: Society of Dance History Scholars, 1997.

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Temple, Michele. The Middle Eastern Influence on Late Medieval Italian Dances: Origins of the 29987 Istampittas. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Terry, Esther. “Belonging While Black: A Choreography of Imagined Silence in Early Modern African Diasporic Dance.” PhD diss., University of Pittsburgh, 2016.

Thiel, Sara B. T. “‘Cushion Come Forth’: Materializing Pregnancy on the Stuart Stage.” In Stage Matters: Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance, eds. Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, 143-158. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.

_____. “Performing Blackface Pregnancy at the Stuart Court: The Masque of Blackness and Love’s Mistress, or the Queen’s Masque,” Renaissance Drama 45, no. 2 (2017): 211-236.

Thierry, Demaubus. “Ritual, Ostension and the Divine in the Stuart Masque.” Literature and Theology 17, no. 3 (2003): 298–313.

Thomas, Max W. “Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Dancing Carnival into Market.” PMLA 107, no. 3 (1992): 511-523.

Thomson, Peter, and Roger Clegg. “He’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry—’: Notes on the English Dramatic Jig.” Studies in Theatre and Performance 29, no. 1 (2009): 67-83.

Thorp, Jennifer, and Michael Burden, eds. Ballet de la Nuit. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2010.

_____. “Dance in Late 17th-Century London: Priestly Muddles.” Early Music 26, no. 2 (1998): 198–210.

Todd, Margo. “Profane Pastimes and the Reformed Community: The Persistence of Popular Festivities in Early Modern Scotland.” The Journal of British Studies 39, no. 2 (2000): 123-156.

Traiger, Lisa. “Washington Ballet’s 7×7: Shakespeare.” DanceviewTimes 5, no. 18 (2007).  http://danceviewtimes.com/2007/Spring/06/7×7.html.

Twycross, Meg, and Sarah Carpenter. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.

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Underdown, David. “‘But the Shows of their Street’: Civic Pageantry and Charivari in a Somerset Town, 1607.” Journal of British Studies 50, no. 1 (2011): 4-23.

_____. Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

van der Leeuw, Tracy Lee. “Dancing Queen, Elizabeth I and Anna of Denmark: Dance, Masques, and the Queen’s Role.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2003.

van Orden, Kate. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Vittes, Laurence. “Titus Redux: Theater Review.” The Hollywood Reporter, Oct. 14, 2010. www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/titus-redux-theater-review-29916.

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Wagner, Ann. Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Walkling, Andrew. English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

_____. “The Masque of Actaeon and the Antimasque of Mercury: Dance, Dramatic Structure, and Tragic Exposition in Dido and Aeneas.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 63, no. 2 (2010): 191-242.

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

Ward, John. “Apropos ‘The olde Measures.’” Records of Early English Drama Newsletter 18, no. 1 (1993): 2-21.

_____. “The Manner of Dauncying.” Early Music 4 (1976): 127-142.

Waxman, Donald, ed., with Wendy Hilton. A Dance Pageant: Renaissance and Baroque Keyboard Dances. Boston: Galaxy Music Corporation (E. C. Schirmer), 1992. (This is a music collection with notes and commentary on the dance types.)

Weddle-Mulholland, Katona Dail. “A study of the metaphorical language of Renaissance dance in four of Shakespeare’s comedies: Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest.” PhD diss., Central Missouri State University, 1999.

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

_____. “Italian Influence on the English Court Masque.” The Modern Language Review 100, Supplement (2005): 75-90.

West, Russell. “Perplexive Perspectives: the Court and Contestation in the Jacobean Masque.” Seventeenth Century 18, no. 1 (2003): 25–43.

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