SOURCE: "Plagues and Publication: Ballads and the Representation of Disease in the English Renaissance," in Criticism, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 27-49.
In the following essay, Achinstein observes that the publication of ballads in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England was closely associated in the public mind with the dissemination of plague.
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