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Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England Pamela Allen Brown
Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England
Pamela Allen Brown
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...
288 pages, 14 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 8, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801488368 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 230 × 152 × 18 mm · 396 g |