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Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

New book by Professor Tiffany Stern.

22 April 2026
Statue of Shakespeare

An enlightening study into the broadsheet ballad merchandise sold outside playhouses for plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Kyd and more.

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads were product-placed in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, after plays as jigs by Tarlton, Kemp and Armin, and merchandised as plot summaries for plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare and others.

Book cover of Ballad Business

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  • Professor Tiffany Stern, FBA

    Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

    Publishers of Shakespeare's first folio, Carolean stage warfare, Jonson in parts, eighteenth century Shakespeare editors, Coronation literature, warrior women, English translations of Moliere.

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