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Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England
Better a Shrew Than a Sheep Women Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England
Author: Pamela Allen Brown
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 access to popular culture because of their low liter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801440243
ISBN-10: 0801440246
Pages: 263
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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