Original id:
4484
Start date:
1 January 1555
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Imitation
Production notes:
Smith reports that "The deviser of Jack Juggler has taken the first scene of Plautus's Amphitruo, anglicized the characters and dialogue, and turned the scene into a self-contained raucous farce" (p.147). The play was first printed in 1562, but written perhaps several years earlier; the year of first performance is unknown, but likely to be around the mid-1550s. Boas reports that "Jacke Jugeler [was] written probably during the reign of Mary by a Protestant zealot who turned the Plautine confusion of identity in Amphitruo into an attack on transubstantiation" (p.69). He goes on to say that it was most likely performed by schoolboys.
Media of production:
Stage-play
Languages:
English