Professor Barbara Ravelhofer

Publications

A searchable overview of major publications for research and teaching.

Authored Books

  • (2006). The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. Oxford University Press.
  • (2000). B. de Montagut: Louange de la danse. RTM.

Edited Volumes

  • (2016). James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives. Routledge.
  • (2007). English Historical Drama, 1500-1660: Forms Outside the Canon. Palgrave.

Journal Articles

  • (2021). ‘Shakespeare and Dance.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch., 157, 13-30.
  • (2013). ‘Censorship and Poetry at the Court of Charles I: The Case of Georg Rodolf Weckherlin.’ English Literary Renaissance, 43(2), 268-307.
  • (2007). ‘Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621).’ Dance Research, 25(2), 144-155.
  • (2006). ‘Non-Verbal Meaning in Caroline Private Theatre: William Cavendish’s and James Shirley’s The Varietie (c.1641).’ Seventeenth Century, 21(2), 195-214.
  • (2005). ‘“Beasts of Recreacion”: Henslowe’s White Bears.’ English Literary Renaissance, 32(2), 287-323. 
  • (2005). ‘Oral Poetry and the Printing Press in Byron’s The Giaour (1813).’ Romanticism, 11(1), 23-40.
  • (2002). ‘Virtual Theatres.’ Jahrbuch Für Computerphilologie, 4, 133-50.
  • (1999). ‘Bureaucrats and Courtly Cross-Dressers in the Shrovetide Masque and The Shepherd’s Paradise.’ English Literary Renaissance, 29(1), 75-96.
  • (1997). ‘Memorable Movements.’ Internationales Archiv Für Sozialgeschichte Der Deutschen Literatur, 22(1), 1-18.

Chapters

  • (2024). ‘Shakespeare/Play/Dance.’ In E. Whipday (Ed.), Shakespeare/Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance. Bloomsbury.
  • (2021). ‘Regional Performance as Intangible Cultural Heritage.’ In J. McKinnell & D. Wyatt (Eds.), Early performers and performance in the Northeast of England. (pp. 161-182). ARC Humanities Press.
  • (2020). ‘Visual Effects in the Wedding Masques of 1613.’ In N. Hayton, H. Hubach, & M. Neumeier (Eds.), Churfürstlicher Hochzeitlicher Heimführungs Triumph. (pp. 277-290). Verlag Regionalkultur.
  • (2019). ‘Rituale der Sterblichkeit: Der Totentanz in Bild und Aufführung [Rituals of Mortality: The Dance of Death in Image and Performance].’ In K. Stocker & H. Walsdorf (Eds.), Ritual – Tanz – Buehne (pp. 89-114). Leipzig University Press.
  • (2016). ‘Shirley’s Tragedies.’ In B. Ravelhofer (Ed.), James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives. (pp. 86-107). Routledge.
  • (2015). ‘Equestrian Ballet as a Representative of Cultural Change in Europe, c.1500-1700.’ In S. Fielitz (Ed.), “… that I wished myself a horse”: The Horse as Representative of Cultural Change in Systems of Thought. (pp. 149-174). Universitatsverlag Winter.
  • (2012). ‘Middleton and Dance.’ In G. Taylor & T. Henley (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton. (pp. 130-147). Oxford University Press.
  • (2012). ‘Understanding Horses: Equestrian Ballet and Early Modern Political Thought.’ In S. Fielitz & U. Meyer (Eds.), Shakespeare. Satire. Academia. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Weiss. (pp. 101-122). Universitätsverlag Winter.
  • (2011). ‘Choreography as Commonplace.’ In D. Cowling & M. Bruun (Eds.), Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I: Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt (pp. 209-228). Peeters Publishers.
  • (2011). ‘History and Story: Voivode Dracula in Fifteenth-Century German Manuscript, Print, and Oral Poetry.’ In M. Ed. Spremic (Ed.), English Language and Literature Studies: Image, Identity, Reality. (pp. 17-36). Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
  • (2010). ‘Dance.’ In J. Ed. Sanders (Ed.), Ben Jonson in Context (pp. 171-180). Cambridge University Press.
  • (2010). ‘Ancient Greece, Dance, and the English Masque.’ In F. Ed. Macintosh (Ed.), The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (pp. 211-223). Oxford University Press.
  • (2007). ‘News Drama: The Tragic Subject of Charles I.’ In T. Grant & B. Ravelhofer (Eds.), English Historical Drama, 1500-1660: Forms Outside the Canon (pp. 179-201). Palgrave.
  • (2007). ’Queen Henrietta Maria’s Dramatic Activities’. In R. Ed. Walthaus & M. Corporaal (Eds.), Heroines of the Golden StAge: Women and Drama in Spain and England, 1500-1700. (pp. 129-142). Reichenberger.
  • (2007). ‘English Masques.’ In M. Kant (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (pp. 32-41). Cambridge University Press.
  • (2005). ‘Variatio alla turca: Byron’s The Giaour.’ In C. Jansohn & eds B. Plachta (Eds.), Varianten – Variants – Variantes. (pp. 157-165). Niemeyer.
  • (2005). ‘Histrio and Historian: Imperial Symbolism in the Gedechtnus Works of Maximilian I.’ In R. Suntrup, J. Veenstra, & eds A. Bollmann (Eds.), The Mediation of Symbol in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times – Medien der Symbolik in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (pp. 257-273). Peter Lang.
  • (2004). Dancing at the Court of Queen Elizabeth. In C. Jansohn (Ed.), Queen Elizabeth I: Past and Present (pp. 101-15). Lit.
  • (2004). Stage Design as Multimedia Composition in Early Modern England. In M. Hoogvliet (Ed.), Multi-Media Compositions from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (pp. 105-119). Peeters Publishers.
  • (2003). The Medium of Plagiarism: Rogue Choreographers in Early Modern London. In P. Kewes (Ed.), Plagiarism in Early Modern England. (pp. 134-148). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • (1998). ”Virgin Wax’ and ‘Hairy Men-Monsters’: Unstable Movement Codes in the Stuart Masque.’ In D. Bevington & eds P. Holbrook (Eds.), The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (pp. 244-272). Cambridge UP.

Scholarly Editions

  • (2000). Johann Georg Pasch: Anleitung sich bei grossen Herrn Höfen und andern beliebt zu machen.

Digital Media