{"product_id":"the-broadside-ballad-in-early-modern-england-9781512827910","title":"The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive presentation and examination of a popular seventeenth-century genre: the English broadside ballad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e to analyze the performative potential ballads have in comparison with staged drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA broadside ballad cannot be \"read\" without reading it in relation to its images and its tune, Fumerton argues. To that end, \u003ci\u003eThe Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Fumerton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981615337590,"sku":"9781512827910","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/the-broadside-ballad-in-early-modern-england-9781512827910","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}