Jack Juggler
A Royalty-Free Play Script from La Commedia
A Royalty-Free Play Script from La Commedia
Jack Juggler gaslights Jenkin Careaway to make him doubt his own existence. A late-medieval English play in the early commedia style -- zany servants playing pranks.
Anonymous author, circa 1555
Latin stage directions translated by Talia Felix, 2023
Because this play is very old, the traditional commedia character names didn't yet exist, since there virtually was no "tradition" yet. Even in Italian texts many commedia type plays of this age don't use stock character names we would recognize anymore. The English names are pretty good approximations of what the Italian names would represent, e.g. Zanni = Jack --TF
Dramatis Personæ
MASTER BONGRACE, a galant
DAME COY, a gentlewoman
JACK JUGGLER, the vice
JENKIN CAREAWAY, a lackey
ALICE TRIP-AND-GO, a maid