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- Title
All singing, all dancing.
- Authors
Skeaping, Lucie
- Abstract
The article discusses the performance of sexually explicit jigs as a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration theater. According to the author, the crowds that gathered at the London playhouses in the late-16th and early-17th centuries and stayed after the play ended were often treated to a lewd farce, known as a jig. The jigs featured songs, dancing, and slapstick comedy and were established as a common practice following more serious theater. Topics include the disapproval of jigs by those within the literary world who felt jigs prevented audiences from fully appreciating plays, the origins of the stage jig, and the stock characters that would show up repeatedly, such as the cuckolded husband.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; JIGS (Dramas); ENGLISH drama; FARCE; ENGLISH drama (Comedy); EARLY modern English drama; THEATERS; RESTORATION, Great Britain, 1660-1688; DRAMA criticism
- Publication
History Today, 2010, Vol 60, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article