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A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland and North America because they ...
The English Broadside Ballad Archive was created in 2003 by Patricia Fumerton, Professor of English at UCSB to digitize broadside ballads of the heyday of the 17th century. Many of these ballads are currently held in difficult to access libraries in both North America and the United Kingdom, often in fragile condition, and EBBA's aim is to make ...
England's Happiness in the Crowning of William and Mary is an English broadside ballad composed in 1689 and takes as its primary focus the coronation of William III and Mary II. [1] William and Mary's joint reign began in February 1689 when the Convention Parliament, summoned by William after his invasion of England in 1689, offered him the ...
The Broomfield Hill was printed by a number of publishers of broadside ballads. There are seven in the Bodleian Broadside collection, all fairly similar, with an earliest possible date of 1711. [5] Child included six versions, five of them Scottish and one from an English broadside from the collection compiled by Francis Douce. [6]
The Woeful Lamentation of Jane Shore is an English broadside ballad from the 17th century. It tells the story of Jane Shore, a mistress of King Edward IV, and her downfall after the death of Edward. Copies of the broadside can be found at the British Library, the University of Glasgow Library, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
The Honour of a London Prentice is an English broadside ballad from the late 17th century. The ballad is a nationalistic celebration of England. It follows an English apprentice who goes to Turkey and wins the respect of the King and the hand of the Turkish Princess through heroic deeds. He defends Queen Elizabeth, and eventually gets the ...
An Excellent Medley Which You May Admire At (Without Offense) is an English broadside ballad from the 17th century, written by Martin Parker and sung to the tune of The Spanish Pavan or Tarleton's Medley. The ballad does not tell a narrative, but rather collects lines of "contrary sense" and puts them together for humorous effect.
Coridon and Parthenia or "Coridon and Parthenia, The Languishing Shepherd made Happy. Or, Faithful Love rewarded" is a broadside ballad, which dates from, by estimation of the English Short Title Catalogue, the last three decades of the seventeenth century. The ballad begins, "When busie Fame ore all the Plain,/ Parthenias Praises rung."