APGRD id
4484
Start date
1555
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
Associated ancient works
APGRD 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.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/4484