for which popular tunes, such as Fading, were utilized.[1] This transformation was perhaps due to the initiative of Tarlton, to whom several jigs are attributed.[2] But he was followed by Kempe and others, and in the last decade of the sixteenth century the jig may be inferred from the Stationers' Register to have become almost a literary type.[3] Nashe in 1596 threatens Gabriel Harvey with an interlude, and 'a Jigge at the latter end in English Hexameters of O neighbour Gabriell, and his wooing of Kate Cotton'.[4] In 1597 Henslowe bought two jigs from two young men for the Admiral's at a cost of 6s. 8d.[5] In 1598 'Kemps Jigge' was being sung in the streets.[6] The Middlesex justices made a special order against the lewd jigs, songs, and dances at the Fortune in 1612.[7] Unfortunately few jigs have survived except from a late date or in German adaptations.[8] Two or three, however, appear amongst collections of ballads to which they are cognate
- ↑ Cf. the quotation from K. B. P. on p. 557, and ch. v.
- ↑ Tarlton and Kempe (cf. ch. xv) are spoken of as acting in 'merriments'. I doubt whether anything more technical is meant than a farcical episode in a play, perhaps helped out with such 'gags' as Hamlet, III. ii. 42, deprecates.
- ↑ Arber, ii. 297, 298, 571, 600, 601, 669, 670, 671; iii. 49, 50, 'a newe Northerne Jigge' (5 Jan. 1591), 'the seconde parte of the gigge betwene Rowland and the Sexton' (16 Dec. 1591), 'the thirde and last parte of Kempes Jigge' (28 Dec. 1591), 'a merrie newe Jigge betwene Jenkin the Collier and Nansie' (14 Jan. 1592), 'a plesant newe Jigge of the broome-*man', ascribed in the margin to Kempe (16 Jan. 1595), 'a pleasant Jigge betwene a tincker and a Clowne' (4 Feb. 1595), 'a ballad of Cuttinge George and his hostis beinge a Jigge' (17 Feb. 1595), 'Master Kempes Newe Jigge of the kitchen stuffe woman' (2 May 1595), 'Phillips his gigg of the slyppers' (26 May 1595), 'a pretie newe Jigge betwene Ffrancis the gentleman Richard the farmer and theire wyves' (14 Oct. 1595), and 'Kemps newe Jygge betwixt a Souldiour and a Miser and Sym the clown' (21 Oct. 1595); cf. ch. xv (Tarlton). Creizenach, 312, cites a list of jig titles by Hoenig in Anzeiger für deutsches Altertum, xxii. 304.
- ↑ Have With You to Saffron Walden (Works, iii. 114).
- ↑ Henslowe, i. 70, 82.
- ↑ E. Guilpin, Skialetheia, Sat. v.
- ↑ App. D, No. cl; cf. the quotation from Dekker, supra; Hamlet, II. ii. 522, of Polonius, 'He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps'; Wither, Abuses Stript and Whipt (1613), ii. 3, 'a Curtaine Iigge, a Libell, or a Ballet'. Possibly the Middlesex order has a bearing on the curious variant in the Epistle to Jonson's Alchemist (1612), where some copies lament 'the concupiscence of jigges and daunces', others of 'daunces and antikes'.
- ↑ The Black Man is in Kirkman's The Wits (1672), and Singing Simpkin is ascribed in undated texts to the Caroline Robert Cox, but a tune of this name was known in Basle in 1592, and a German jig of 1620 seems to be a translation; cf. Herz, 132; F. Bolte, Die Singspiele der englischen Komödianten und ihrer Nachfolger (1893, Theatergeschichtliche Forschungen, vii); W. J. Lawrence (T. L. S. 3 July 1919).
