10, No. 2, Spring 2016 Shakespearean Ballads in Thomas Percy’s ... Shakespearean Ballads in Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Transition from Oral Songs to Printed Historical ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

This volume, a model of typographical art, with its fine press work, stout paper, and excellent binding, gives us the pick and choice of the old English ballads. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

This week, Continuum features The Queen’s Delight, a special music program devoted to the 17th century English ballads and dances of the time of Elizabeth I. You’ll hear music by John Dowland ...

There are several versions of many of the ballads and several names for them. For instance, the American “The Knoxville Girl” is modeled on an English ballad called "The Oxford Girl" or the ...

This one is done. The ballad is one of the oldest forms of poetry in the English language. Across Europe, ballads were sung and performed to ordinary people and noble people alike. People ...