Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context
Clegg, Roger, Skeaping, Lucie
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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Year:
2014
Publisher:
University of Exeter Press
Language:
english
Pages:
352
ISBN 10:
0859898784
ISBN 13:
9780859898782
Series:
Exeter Performance Studies
File:
PDF, 7.34 MB
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english, 2014