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Author Brown, Pamela Allen.
Title Better a shrew than a sheep : women, drama, and the culture of jest in early modern England / Pamela Allen Brown.
Publication Info Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.


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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.
ISBN 9781501722363 (electronic bk.)
1501722360 (electronic bk.)
0801440246
9780801440243
0801488362
9780801488368
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Author Brown, Pamela Allen.
Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
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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.
ISBN 9781501722363 (electronic bk.)
1501722360 (electronic bk.)
0801440246
9780801440243
0801488362
9780801488368
Author Brown, Pamela Allen.
Subject 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.

Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
ISBN 9781501722363 (electronic bk.)
1501722360 (electronic bk.)
0801440246
9780801440243
0801488362
9780801488368
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