Better a shrew than a sheep : women, drama, and the culture of jest in early modern England / Pamela Allen Brown

Author: Brown, Pamela Allen
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Physical Description: xi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

Introduction : sauce for the gander -- Near neighbors, women's wars, and Merry wives -- Ale and female : gossips as players, alehouse as theater -- Between women, or all is fair at horn fair -- "O such a rogue would be hang'd!" : shrews versus wife beaters -- Scandalous pleasures : a coney-catcher and her public -- Griselda the fool -- Epilogue : the problem of fun.

Subject(s)

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—17th century—History and criticism
English drama (Comedy)—History and criticism
English wit and humor—History and criticism
Jestbooks, English—History
Comic, The, in literature
Sex role in literature
Women in literature

ISBN

0801440246 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801488362 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-253) and index.

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