The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy
by
Ross W. Duffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of...