Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction -- PART I. DANCE -- 1. Methodology -- 2. English and Continental Sources -- What is an Early Modern Choreographic Treatise? -- Italian and Spanish Sources from the Mid-Sixteenth to the Early Seventeenth Century -- English Sources: From the Gresley Manuscript to Playford -- French Sources -- Conclusion: A Multiplicity of Styles -- 3. Theatre Dances -- Histrionic Movement and the Antimasque -- Dance Music -- Rehearsals -- Optical Impact: The Individual Court Dancer and the Collective Geometric Movement -- The Human Stage -- 4. Discipline or Pleasure? -- Practice and the Written Source -- Female Performance and European Dance Treatises -- Conclusion -- PART II. COSTUME -- 5. Masque Costumes -- Recycling Splendour: The Circulation of Masque Costumes -- The Creation of Masque Costumes -- Storage -- Conspicuous Consumption? -- 6. Colours and Lights: The Costume in Motion -- 7. Costume Conventions for Male and Female Masquers -- PART III. CASE STUDIES -- 8. Two Jonsonian Court Masques -- The Masque of Queenes (1609) -- Oberon (1611) -- Conclusion -- 9. Historical Costume, Historical Dancing: Coelum Britannicum -- The Costumes -- The Dances -- Conclusion -- 10. Global Spectacle: An English Masque at Constantinople -- The Ottoman Empire in European Entertainment Culture -- Anglo-Ottoman Interests and Bargrave's Masque -- Dance and Theatre in Early Modern Constantinople -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.