Victorian Songhunters

Victorian Songhunters
Author: E. David Gregory
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2006
Genre: Ballads, English
ISBN: 0810857030

Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.

The English and Scottish Ballads

The English and Scottish Ballads
Author: Francis James Child
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368635573

Reprint of the original, first published in 1898.

The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsy. book II. Folk drama

The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsy. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1903
Genre: Drama, Medieval
ISBN:

From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.