The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550-1650

The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550-1650

Author: Natascha Würzbach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521177443

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Natascha Würzbach's 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social and cultural conditions which accompanied its development. It is also looked at as a literary form.


Sexual Shakespeare

Sexual Shakespeare

Author: Michael Keevak

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780814329757

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Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history.