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- Title
Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew's Chronicle.
- Authors
Bergel, Giles; Howe, Christopher J.; Windram, Heather F.
- Abstract
This article combines bibliography, book history, literary and traditional textual criticism with phylogenetic analysis to infer the publishing history and textual descent of a short printed ballad history of England--The Wandering Jew's Chronicle. Probably first published in 1634, The Wandering Jew's Chronicle most commonly survives as a 'broadside ballad'--a cheaply-printed songsheet-- illustrated with woodcut portraits of kings and queens of England. It remained in print until ca.1830, its text and illustrations updated to the present. Although in partial synchrony with English history, much of its publishing history and textual descent is uncertain. This article demonstrates how historical evidence, taken in particular from book trade history, may be usefully combined with textual and bibliographical evidence, and that it is at times essential for understanding the descent of the text. The textual descent of the ballad is visualized in a stemma that summarizes key findings from both traditional and phylogenetic analyses.
- Subjects
ENGLISH ballads; TEXTUAL criticism; INHERITANCE &; succession; PORTRAITS of kings &; rulers; QUEENS; PHYLOGENY; PORTRAITS
- Publication
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 3, p540
- ISSN
2055-768X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/llc/fqv003