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

by Brown, Pamela Allen.
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003Description: xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0801440246 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801488362 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): English drama -- History and criticism. -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 | English drama -- History and criticism. -- 17th century | English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism | English wit and humor -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- History -- 16th century. -- England | Women and literature -- History -- 17th century. -- England | Jestbooks, English -- History | Comic, The, in literature | Sex role in literature | Women in literatureOnline resources: Table of contents
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.
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PR 653 .E17 2006 Early modern English drama : PR 658 .H64 .P35 1991 Hospitable performances : PR 658 .P65 .N45 2000 Putting history to the question : PR 658 .W6 .B76 2003 Better a shrew than a sheep : PR 823.8 .S66 1995 Markheim, Jekyll and the Merry Men / PR 830.W6 .B75 2000 British women writing fiction / PR 858 .S615 .G67 2000 Psychosocial spaces :

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

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.

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