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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

Author: Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela Allen Brown
ISBN: 0801440246 9780801440243 0801488362 9780801488368
OCLC Number: 50279913
Description: xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Pamela Allen Brown.
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