This chapter looks at seventeenth-century ballads as sources for studying the histories of
sex, reproduction, and the body. Ballads were songs printed onto single sheets and often …

In modern times, scholars have widely regarded early Elizabethan tragedy, like Thomas
Norton and Thomas Sackville's Gorboduc (1561/62) and its successors at the Inns of Court …

Considering the fame of the poet and the beauty of the poetry, it is intriguing and somewhat
baffling that there are no musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets from his lifetime …

In the final scene of The Winter's Tale, when Paulina commands “Musick, awake her; strike”
to “revive” the statue of Hermione, what might Shakespeare's first audiences have heard …

This essay considers the notable commercial success that the Elizabethan author Thomas
Deloney achieved with a number of ballads in which he represented female voices. These …

Early modern songs were considered effective instruments to strengthen the formation of
collective identities. However, in a culturally fragmented region such as the Netherlands …