by CCash | Jul 1, 2024 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
When Shakespeare mentions ballads in his plays, he uses adjectives like odious and woeful, mentioning both the ballad makers in Coriolanus, and the people who sell them, known as the ballad mongers, in Henry IV Part 1. Shakespeare has over 20 references to ballads...
by CCash | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Haunted Lover’s Ballads for Shakespeare’s lifetime were a special kind of folk song where the ghosts of dead lovers would come back to haunt their unfaithful partners as a warning to future potentially unfaithful lovers. Ghosts and spiritual manifestations...
by CCash | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
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