Jig (theatre)
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Jig (theatre)
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In theatres, beginning in Elizabethan London, a jig was a short comic drama that immediately followed a full-length play. This phenomenon added an additional comic or light-hearted offering at the end of a performance. A jig might include songs sung to popular tunes of the day, and it might feature dance, stage fighting, cross-dressing, disguisings, asides, masks, and elements of pantomime. These short comic dramas are referred to by historians as stage jigs, dramatic jigs, or Elizabethan jigs.
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