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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Sauce for the Gander
- 1. Near Neighbors, Women's Wars, and Merry Wives
- 2. Ale and Female: Gossips as Players, Alehouse as Theater
- 3. Between Women, or All Is Fair at Horn Fair
- 4· "O such a rogue would be hang'd!" Shrews versus Wife Beaters
- 5. Scandalous Pleasures: A Coney-Catcher and Her Public
- 6. Griselda the Fool
- Epilogue: The Problem of Fun
- Bibliography
- Index