The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics

by Patricia Fumerton

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512827916
• ISBN13: 9781512827910
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 480 Pages