Jack_Juggler
Jack Juggler
16th-century play
Jack Juggler (full title: A new Enterlued for Chyldren to playe, named Jacke Jugeler, both wytte, and very pleysent) is an anonymous sixteenth-century comic interlude, considered to be one of the earliest examples of comedy in English alongside Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle. The play is believed to have been written sometime between 1553 and 1561 and was first published in 1562.[1] The author of the play is uncertain, however it has been proposed to be the work of the London schoolmaster, Nicholas Udall.[2] As the full title indicates, the play was most likely performed by a troupe of child-actors possibly at court during the Christmas season.[3] The plot is an adaptation of a section of the play Amphitryon by the Roman comic playwright Plautus.