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Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs : Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clegg, Skeaping.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : University of Exeter Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The theatrical jig of the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama that included elements of dance, stage combat and disguise. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs re-united as far as possible with their original tunes. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A history of the dramatic jig 1
- The scripts and tunes 66
- Wooing of Nan 70
- Rowland's God Son 86
- Singing Simpkin 99
- Francis' New Jig 119
- The Black Man 140
- The Jig of St. Denys' Ghost 166
- The Libel of Michael Steel 181
- Fools Fortune 199
- The Cheaters Cheated 222
- Staging the jigs
- Text 251
- Music 263
- Dance 281.
- ISBN:
- 9780859898782
- 0859898784
- OCLC:
- 867123477
- Publisher Number:
- 99957704149
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