Ballad Business - Selling Early Modern Theatre

"In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads were product-placed in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, after plays as jigs by Tarlton, Kemp and Armin, and merchandised as plot summaries for plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare and others"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Balladmongers; 2. Publishing and writing ballads; 3. In-play ballads and more: Shakespeare; 4. In-play ballads: Ben Jonson; 5. After-play ballads: Jigs and more; 6. About-play ballads: Marlowe and others; 7. About-play ballads: Shakespeare; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Tiffany Stern, FBA, is Professor of Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her previous books include Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey, 2007), Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009) and Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology (2023). She is general editor of Norton Anthology of Sixteenth Century Literature, and Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series.

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany (University of Oxford) Stern, Stern Tiffany
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9781107179677
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17967-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, London, Greater London, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Literary studies: general, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, Publishing and book trade, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, History of Performing Arts, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Classic poetry / poems