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Better a Shrew than a Sheep : Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England /

In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little acces...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Pamela Allen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Illustrations --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction Sauce for the Gander --  |t 1. Near Neighbors, Women's Wars, and Merry Wives --  |t 2. Ale and Female: Gossips as Players, Alehouse as Theater --  |t 3. Between Women, or All Is Fair at Horn Fair --  |t 4· "O such a rogue would be hang'd!" Shrews versus Wife Beaters --  |t 5. Scandalous Pleasures: A Coney-Catcher and Her Public --  |t 6. Griselda the Fool --  |t Epilogue: The Problem of Fun --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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