Author: Nicholas Goodman Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111588254 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 152
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Introduction -- I. The Pamphlet and its Purpose -- II. The Form and Style -- III. The Author and the Audience -- IV. The Occasion and the Results -- The Text -- Explanatory Notes -- Appendices -- A. Textual Notes -- B.A Typescript of Act IV of the Play -- C.A Typescript of the Ballad -- D.A Modern Typescript of the Text -- Bibliography
Author: Patricia Fumerton Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812252314 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 480
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In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fugitive—individual elements migrated freely from one broadside to another—some 11,000 to 12,000 of these artifacts pre-1701 survive, though many others have undoubtedly been lost. Since 2003, Patricia Fumerton and a team of associates at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been finding, digitizing, cataloging, and recording these materials to create the English Broadside Ballad Archive. In this magisterial and long-awaited volume, Fumerton presents a rich display of the fruits of this work. She tracks the fragmentary assembling and disassembling of two unique extant editions of one broadside ballad and examines the loose network of seventeenth-century ballad collectors who archived what were essentially ephemeral productions. She pays particular attention to Samuel Pepys, who collected and bound into five volumes more than 1,800 ballads, and whose preoccupations with black-letter print, gender, and politics are reflected in and extend beyond his collecting practices. Offering an extensive and expansive reading of an extremely popular and sensational ballad that was printed at least 37 times before 1701, Fumerton highlights the ballad genre's ability to move audiences across time and space. In a concluding chapter, she looks to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale to analyze the performative potential ballads have in comparison with staged drama. A broadside ballad cannot be "read" without reading it in relation to its images and its tune, Fumerton argues. To that end, The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England features more than 80 illustrations and directs its readers to a specially constructed online archive where they can easily access 48 audio files of ballad music.
Author: Peter Holland Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521850742 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 396
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Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.
Author: Margaret Willes Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300277814 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
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The first complete history of Southwark, London’s stubbornly independent community over the Thames Southwark’s fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourishing in the medieval era, the Borough has always fiercely asserted its independence. A place of licence, largely free of the City’s jurisdiction, Southwark became a constant thorn in London’s side: an administrative anachronism, a commercial rival, and an asylum for undesirable industries and residents. In this remarkable history of London’s liberty beyond the bridge, Margaret Willes narrates the life and times of the people of Southwark, capturing the Borough’s anarchic spirit of revelry. Populated by a potent mix of talented immigrants, religious dissenters, theatrical folk, brewers, and sex workers, Southwark often escaped urban jurisdiction—giving it an atmosphere of danger, misrule, and artistic freedom. Tracing Southwark’s history from its Roman foundation to its present popularity as a place to visit, through Chaucer, to Shakespeare, and on to Dickens, Willes offers an indispensable exploration of the City’s unacknowledged mirror image.
Author: Nicholas Goodman
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Author: Peter Holland
Author: Thomas Allen
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Author: Thomas Allen
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Author: Henry Elliot Malden
Author: Margaret Willes