Table of Contents

Part One: Dance
1: Methodology
2: English and Continental Sources
3: Theatre Dances
4: Discipline or Pleasure?
Part Two: Costume
5: Masque Costumes
6: Colours and Lights: The Costume in Motion
7: Costume Conventions for Male and Female Masquers
Part Three: Case Studies
8: Two Jonsonian Court Masques
9: Historical Costume, Historical Dancing: Coelum Britannicum
10: Global Spectacle: An English Masque in Constantinople

About the Author

Barbara Ravelhofer is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Durham and a Research Associate of the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge. She pursued her research at the Universities of Munich, Princeton, Bologna, and Cambridge, where she was a Junior Research Fellow in Renaissance Studies

Reviews

pioneering work ... an excellent study which promises to become standard literature on the court masque Shakespeare Jahrbuch