Terpsichore Reviled: Antidance Tracts in Elizabethan England
The widespread popularity of dancing during the reign of Elizabeth I prompted considerable reaction from Protestant moralists who regarded dance as threatening to the spiritual and temporal well-being of England. Although the arguments such moralists advanced against dancing are essentially predicta...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1991
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1991, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 475-494 |
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| Summary: | The widespread popularity of dancing during the reign of Elizabeth I prompted considerable reaction from Protestant moralists who regarded dance as threatening to the spiritual and temporal well-being of England. Although the arguments such moralists advanced against dancing are essentially predictable because they draw on conventional sources, they are nonetheless significant since, ironically, they offer valuable insight into the nature of dancing in their day and the extent of its popularity. Further, in addition to presenting the negative, and therefore less well known, aspects of the Elizabethan dance scene, they provide contemporary social criticism. More important, they acquaint us with the method and type of argument used by sixteenth-century moralists to forge for themselves a link in the chain of antiterpsichorean pronouncements stretching back to classical antiquity and anticipating the England of Cromwell and the Puritans. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541471 |