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Much Ado about Dancing
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 57, Number 2, Spring 2017
- pp. 276-301
- 10.1353/sel.2017.0012
- Article
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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.