[PDF.97op] 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

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 | #2748989 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2003-01-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.16 x.71 x6.00l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A useful dramaturgy|By John Allnutt|Pamela Allen Brown's Better a Shrew than a Sheep is a well researched analysis of 16th and 17th century gender humor in England: both at the expense of women, and women's ripostes. Using plays such as Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Jonson's The Alchemist, lesser known ballads, wood cuttings and related arc| |"Witty and unruly women are all subjects of discussion in Pamela Allen Brown's engrossing and meticulously researched study of the ways in which women might resist, through jokes and ridicule, the models of virtuous and submissive behavior aimed at them from t

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 ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England   |  Pamela Allen Brown. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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