Dance as Finale was an Elizabethan Norm: U.C. Berkeley, 1996.

Shakespeare's company used Kemp's Jigs even to conclude tragedies. Jigs were helpful to entertain the audience during the often drawn-out process of exiting the theatre. After a performance of Julius Caesar at the Globe in 1599 Dr. Thomas Platter says he saw "two of the actors in men's clothes and two in women's clothes performed a dance , as was their custom, wonderfully well together." Bottom proposes a dance to end Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream.