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A Sorcerer's Apprentice? John Weaver's Comic Muse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2015

Richard Semmens
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Abstract

This paper examines John Weaver's Essay Towards an History of Dancing (London, 1712) and his History of the Mimes and Pantomimes (London, 1728). The paper will argue that comic pantomime dancing was critically central to Weaver's agenda as practitioner and writer, theorist, and historian. Modern scholarship has privileged his admittedly considerable contributions in the serious mode in ways that compromise our understanding of his important work overall.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 2015 , Fall 2015 , pp. 160 - 167
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Copyright © Richard Semmens 2015 

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