There are dialogue-ballads that have survived, some with the word jig in the title, and some that were featured in early modern plays; these were not stage jigs, but songs. A number of examples of stage jigs from the Tudor and Stuart period have survived as texts, and can be found spread across the collections at The Bodleian Library, The British Library, The National Library of Wales and Dulwich College Library. The surviving texts of stage jigs feature between 3-6 male performers, some cross-dressed, in a sung-drama that on the page last between 10–25 minutes, but would have been extended in performance (the extant texts call for comic sword fighting, episodes of dance and comic routines) and include impromptu improvisation. They were probably related to French farce or "sotie" and Italian "commedia dell'arte". In 2011 the first jig to be performed in over 400 years was staged by the Owle Schreame theatre company, as part of Brice Stratford's production of Measure for Measure on the site of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre. When Shakespeare's Globe in London first began in 1996, an idea of adding a jig at the end of a performance was considered, and one was actually rehearsed, but it was cancelled. Instead, a stately dance has been regularly performed at the end of Shakespearean plays and preceding the curtain call. The dance is referred to as a jig, and though it may revive part of the idea or spirit, as simply a dance it differs from the traditional jig of the Elizabethan theatres in that it does not contain comic dialogue or plot. Bibliography