In this presentation, Patricia Fumerton tracks the multiple media (text, art, and tune) that made up one of the early modern period’s most popular and most violent broadside ballads. She follows the ballad’s media over 200 years, two continents, and several genres. In the process, she demonstrates how the broadside ballad can only be understood as an interdisciplinary, lived experience which spoke compellingly and multifariously to different historical social groups.

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