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Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs
Lucie Skeaping, Roger Clegg
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of ageing cuckolds and young head-strong wives, knavish clowns, roaring soldiers and country bumpkins, jigs often followed as afterpieces at London’s playhouses, and were performed at fairs, in villages and in private houses. Troublesome to the authorities, they drew the crowds by offering a lively antidote to more sober theatrical fare.
This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration; the scripts are re-united as far as possible with their original tunes. It gives a comprehensive history, discusses sources, plots, instrumentation and dancing, and offers practical information on staging jigs today.
Includes:
Transcriptions of the original texts
Contextual notes: plot synopses and discussion of sources, themes and audience reception
Musical notation for each tune, with suggestions for underlay and chords, and notes on instrumention and style
Appendix of dance instructions and reconstructions
Kundenbewertungen
cuckolds, jigs, modern period, playscripts, broadsheet ballads, Wooing of Nan, theatre studies, musical comedy, Elizabethan period, dance reconstructions, Shakespeare, performance studies, stage production, theatre history, dance, Elizabethan England, clowns, comedy, libretti, contextual material, Restoration, musical notation, England, disguise, bawdy, 16th and 17th centuries, dramatic jig, London playhouses, music, slapstick