attempted to use plot and emotion in replacement of more sophisticated technical and speech methods, he is considered a major influence on subsequent choreographers, including Jean-Georges Noverre and Gasparo Angiolini. Other writings and productions In addition to the other works of notation mentioned above, he published A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing''' (1706), another translation of Feuillet. He also published "Anatomical and mechanical lectures upon dancing. Wherein rules and institutions for that art are laid down and demonstrated" (1721). In 1728 he revised sections of his Essay of 1712 for a more popular audience and published it as The History of the Mimes and Pantomimes. He also made a number of contributions to The Spectator, edited by his friend Richard Steele, who described him as "that more than Peripatetick Philosopher, Mr Weaver". His other theatrical productions included The Shipwreck; or Perseus and Andromeda (1717), a "Burlesque Entertainment in Dancing", Orpheus and Eurydice (1718), a "Dramatick Entertainment in Dancing" and The Judgment of Paris (1733), a "Dramatick Entertainment in Dancing and Singing". Personal life Weaver was twice married. By his first wife, Catherine, who died in 1712, he had two sons and one daughter. His second wife, Susannah, survived him to die in 1773 aged 73. Later life Subsequent productions were less successful and by 1721 his attention had shifted to the scientific treatment of his art, trying to establish dancing as one of the liberal arts. In 1720 he moved his family back to Shrewsbury, but returned to Drury Lane in 1728–29 as a producer and dancer. After this, apart from the production of The Judgment of Paris'' in 1733, he left the stage. Back in Shrewsbury he devoted himself to his boarding school, and is thought to have taught dancing to almost the end of his long life. He died on 24 September 1760, aged 87. He was buried in the south aisle of Old St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, on 28 September. See also List of dancers References External links The books of John Weaver 1673 births 1760 deaths English male dancers English choreographers 17th-century dancers People from Shrewsbury People educated at Shrewsbury School 18th-century British dancers