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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Pamela Allen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1500-1699
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Comic, The, in literature.
Jestbooks, English > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
English wit and humor > History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Comédie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Comique dans la littérature.
Fabliaux anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Humour anglais > Histoire et critique.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Jestbooks, English.
English wit and humor.
English drama (Comedy)
English drama.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Women and literature.
Frau > Motiv
Komische Literatur
Prosaschwank
Komödie.
England.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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