Greensleeves: Difference between revisions

A [[Broadside (music)|broadside ballad]] by this name was registered at the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|London Stationer's Company]] in September 1580,<ref name="fkids"/> by Richard Jones, as "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves".<ref name="Ward181" /> Six more ballads followed in less than a year, one on the same day, 3 September 1580 ("Ye Ladie Greene Sleeves answere to Donkyn hir frende" by Edward White), then on 15 and 18 September (by Henry Carr and again by White), 14 December (Richard Jones again), 13 February 1581 (Wiliam Elderton), and August 1581 (White's third contribution, "Greene Sleeves is worne awaie, Yellow Sleeves Comme to decaie, Blacke Sleeves I holde in despite, But White Sleeves is my delighte").<ref name="Rollins">[[Hyder Edward Rollins]], ''An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557–1709) in the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1924): nos, 1892, 1390, 1051, 1049, 1742, 2276, 1050. Cited in John M. Ward, "'And Who But Ladie Greensleeues?'", in ''The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of F. W. Sternfeld'', edited by John Caldwell, Edward Olleson, and Susan Wollenberg, 181–211 (Oxford:Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990): 181–82. {{ISBN|0-19-316124-9}}.</ref> It then appears in the surviving ''[[A Handful of Pleasant Delights]]'' (1584) as ''A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green Sleeves''.

 

 

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