Unlawfull Concomitants of Stage-playes. Le broadside ballads e la polemica antiteatrale nell’Inghilterra della prima età moderna

This article deals with the English broadside ballads in the period between the Reformation and the end of the eighteenth century. The composition, performance, and selling of the broadside ballads have been considered in the light of the simultaneous explosion of the Puritan anti-theatrical prejudice, and of the contemporary legislation against street-theater and unauthorized cheap print.