Paper $55.00 ISBN: 9780859898782 Will Publish September 2013 For sale in North and South America only

Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs

Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context

Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping

 Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs
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Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping

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352 pages | 15 halftones | 7 x 9 4/5
Paper $55.00 ISBN: 9780859898782 Will Publish September 2013 For sale in North and South America only
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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