ChanteyLass ~ I think rather Feste in 12th Night: tho not sure if that historical fiction rather than a play set in its time. In which case (using works from the past in which folk music/singing occurs) I should mention the novels of Thomas Hardy [esp Tess & Return Of The Native), & Mrs Gaskell's Mary Barton. {I had an article on Folk Music In Thomas Hardy in Folk Review for Dec 1972).

~Michael~