Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs / ISSN (ePub)
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,...
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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
His research is in the politics and practice of Renaissance popular performance and the relationship between the stage and the culture and society which it inhabits. He has researched and written on English jigs from the late sixteenth and seventeenth century, and has also investigated the staging of Singing Simpkin at Shakespeare's Globe as part of Globe Education's 'Winter Playing' research (2003).
Publications include He's for a jig or a Tale of Bawdry: Notes on the English stage Jig, with Peter Thomson, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2009.
Roger is also particularly interested in popular humour, political satire and comic performance, and organises a conference and other events annually under the banner Playing for Laughs: On Comedy in Performance (as part of Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival) which invites academics and practitioners of comedy to come together to share ideas on just why and how people generate laughter through performance.
- Autoren: Roger Clegg , Lucie Skeaping
- 2015, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: University of Exeter Press
- ISBN-10: 0859899845
- ISBN-13: 9780859899840
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2015
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 8.96 MB
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