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Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context

By Clegg , Lucie , Roger; Skeaping

Book information

Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Year
2014
ISBN
978-0-85989-878-2, 0859898784
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7695891 bytes)
Series
Exeter Performance Studies
Pages
352\354
Time added
2016-01-18 05:00:00
1500-1600 -- History and criticism.English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan

Description

A popular crowd pleaser from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama that included elements of dance, slapstick, and disguise. For the first time in four hundred years, the lyrics and music notation for nine jigs from this period are presented, as well as an appendix for dance instruction. With Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs,the authors provide a comprehensive account of a genre that was highly popular in its day, and demonstrates the influence of jigs on other forms of theater in Shakespearean England.

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