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"Ending in Music: Romeo and Juliet and the Renaissance Jig Tradition"

Renaissance plays, including tragedies, traditionally ended in a jig, a mixed form combining dance, music, and dramatic dialogue. Professor Matthew Smith (Azusa Pacific University) will give a lecture on Shakespeare and the jig tradition, with an emphasis on Romeo and Juliet. The lecture will be followed by a demonstration-performance by the Early Broadside Ballad Archive Performance Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This special scholarship-and-performance event is co-sponsored by the Group for the Study of Early Cultures, the UCI Shakespeare Center, Illuminations, and the Humanities Commons