Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "By the close of the sixteenth century the term 'jig' (variously spelt 'jigg', 'jigge', 'gig', 'gigg', 'gigge', 'gigue', 'jigue', 'jeg', 'jegg') had come to refer simultaneously to 'a song', 'a dance' (see 'jig'), and 'a piece of music' (see 'gigue'),as well as taking on a specialist meaning in the early modern playhouse to refer to a relatively short drama sung to popular tunes of the day, and featuring episodes of dance, stage fighting, cross-dressing and disguisings, asides, masks, and elements of (what today would be called) 'pantomime'. These short comic dramas are often referred to by scholars and historians as a 'stage jig', 'dramatic jig' or, popularly, 'Elizabethan Jig' -- after the title of Charles Read Baskervill's seminal monograph on the subject, The Elizabethan Jig and Related Song Drama, published in 1929—to mark the dramatic form from its use as simply 'song' or 'dance'."@en }
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- Stage_jig abstract "By the close of the sixteenth century the term 'jig' (variously spelt 'jigg', 'jigge', 'gig', 'gigg', 'gigge', 'gigue', 'jigue', 'jeg', 'jegg') had come to refer simultaneously to 'a song', 'a dance' (see 'jig'), and 'a piece of music' (see 'gigue'),as well as taking on a specialist meaning in the early modern playhouse to refer to a relatively short drama sung to popular tunes of the day, and featuring episodes of dance, stage fighting, cross-dressing and disguisings, asides, masks, and elements of (what today would be called) 'pantomime'. These short comic dramas are often referred to by scholars and historians as a 'stage jig', 'dramatic jig' or, popularly, 'Elizabethan Jig' -- after the title of Charles Read Baskervill's seminal monograph on the subject, The Elizabethan Jig and Related Song Drama, published in 1929—to mark the dramatic form from its use as simply 'song' or 'dance'.".