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Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England

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Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England - Brown, Pamela Allen
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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...

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Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England 2003, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801488368

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