Better a Shrew than a Sheep
Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England
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 literacy and social marginality, Brown demonstrates that women often bested all comers in the arenas of jesting, gaining a few heady moments of agency. Juxtaposing the literature of jest against court records, sermons, and conduct books, Brown employs a witty, entertaining style to propose that non-elite wo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2236-3
- EAN: 9781501722363
- Produktnummer: 28011252
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 14 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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