Singing Simpkin and Other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context: Exeter Performance Studies
Autor Roger Clegg, Lucie Skeapingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2014
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780859898782
ISBN-10: 0859898784
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 178 x 249 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
Colecția University of Exeter Press
Seria Exeter Performance Studies
ISBN-10: 0859898784
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 178 x 249 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
Colecția University of Exeter Press
Seria Exeter Performance Studies
Notă biografică
Roger Clegg is senior lecturer in drama studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Lucie Skeaping presents The Early Music Show each week on BBC Radio 3. She is a writer, musician, performer, and broadcaster.
Cuprins
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
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
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
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
Index
Contributors
Recenzii
“A thoroughly researched and densely documented volume.”
"Singing Simpkin will be valued by musicologists, theatre or performance historians, seekers after the aesthetics of Shakespearean drama, cultural historians, and many others including (hopefully) current-day theatrical practitioners aiming to re-animate historical modes of playing."
"Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping’s wonderful collection of nine English jigs . . . is an exemplary exercise in collaboration. . . . This is an excellent piece of research and a valuable resource."
"What happens when you follows a Shakespearean tragedy, or even a romantic comedy, with a bawdy musical farce laced with bouts of vigorous dancing? . . . Thanks to the authors of this excellent volume, for the first time in several hundred years, there is ready access to the information needed to mount a production of this kind."
“This excellent book offers a history of the genre, nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the period, and useful information on how to perform them.”
“This engaging edition allows one to imagine how these dramatic afterpieces might have functioned both on stage, an in Early modern society more generally.”
"A very valuable addition to the study of early modern dramatic literature."
"Anyone with an interest in early modern drama and popular culture will find much to enjoy here and will welcome this nicely produced edition."
“Singing Simpkin combines scholarly analysis with performer-friendly versions of nine stage jigs from Shakespeare’s time to the Restoration. The book presents and appraises textual and musical evidence relating to the stage jig with exemplary thoroughness; the detail enhances our knowledge of stage performance generally during that period. Much more than a historical survey, the book acts as a manual for recreating performances of the nine jig texts it contains, in terms of dramatic staging, music, and dance. It will be an exciting publication for all theatre historians of the period.”
“As a blueprint and guide for the creation or re-creation of the stage jig, the book is invaluable.”
“The book reinvigorates this lively and little-known form and addresses the full range of formal elements of the jig: texts, music, dance, staging, social context, and audience reception, spurring a critical return to formal and aesthetic considerations. It is clearly written, with a deep respect and admiration for the material it covers.”
“There is no doubting the sound scholarliness of the book.”
“Clegg and Skeaping’s monograph is the first dedicated study of the early modern jig in nearly a century. . . . The book is more than the sum of its parts: it is a key contribution to the understanding of the diversity of early modern English theatre practice not only in London but also elsewhere in Britain and on the Continent, complementing existing research on the topic.”
“The volume is both a substantial scholarly achievement, and, as the authors intend, a rich resource for performance. Working on these scripts with student performers has yielded results that are rude, boisterous and, to our surprise and delight, very funny. It is a book that is worth making a song and dance about.”