'William and Margaret': An Eighteenth-Century Ballad.
The Child ballad 'Fair Margaret and Sweet William' (Child 74) can supposedly be traced back to an echo in a play of the first decade of the seventeenth century, and yet there is no acaial trace of the ballad until a broadside of c.1720. At that time, there also start to appear various copies of anot...
| Publicado en: | Folk Music Journal Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 478 - 512 |
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English Folk Dance & Song Society
2014
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