"Ballads and Product Placement in the Time of Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2525/
Author:
	Stern, Tiffany.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Essays in Criticism 72, no. 3 (2022): 269–299.
DOI:
	10.1093/escrit/cgac023
Annotation:
	Explores connections between ballads and plays in early modern period. Considers ballads used and written by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Studies ballad-jigs performed in plays, including Midsummer Night’s Dream, and discuses ballad-jigs performed by clowns such as Robert Tarleton. Notes authorship of ballads by William Kemp and Robert Armin, clowns from Shakespeare’s theater company. Examines sale of printed ballads outside playhouses by marginalized vendors.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Jonson, Ben; Tarleton, Robert; Kemp, William; Armin, William
Keywords:
	ballad
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Music, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2525