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63 - Oral Tradition

from Part VII - Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Steven Newman
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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balladbroadsideBrown, Mary EllenBuhler, StephenDuffin, Ross W.folklorefolk songFox, AdamjigKitch, AaronLamb, Mary Ellenliteracymorris danceoral traditionoralityprint cultureSmith, Bruce R.songStationers’ Register
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 493 - 499
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Atkinson, David. “Folk Songs in Print: Text and Tradition.” Folk Music Journal 8.4 (2004): 456–83.Google Scholar
Clark, Andrew, ed. The Shirburn Ballads, 1585–1616. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1907.Google Scholar
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Gillespie, Stuart, and Rhodes, Neil, eds. “Shakespeare and Popular Song.” Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006. 174–92.Google Scholar
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