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

Informationen zum Autor Roger Clegg is senior lecturer in drama studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Lucie Skeaping presents The Early Music Sho w each week on BBC Radio 3. She is a writer, musician, performer, and broadcaster. Klappentext 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. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration. Zusammenfassung 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. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and referencing conventions A history of the dramatic jig The scripts and tunes: Wooing of Nan Rowland's God Son Singing Simpkin Francis' New Jig The Black Man The Jig of St. Denys' Ghost The Libel of Michael Steel Fools Fortune The Cheaters Cheated Staging the jigs Text Music Dance Appendix: Dance instruction Bibliography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roger Clegg, Roger Skeaping Clegg, Lucie Skeaping
• Editore: University Of Exeter Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9780859898782
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-878-2
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Exeter Performance Studies; Exeter Performance Studies (Pa; Exeter Performance Studies
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese