Better a shrew than a sheep
Better a shrew than a sheep: women, drama, and the culture of jest in early modern EnglandPamela Allen Brown
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0801488362 ISBN13: 9780801488368 LCC: PR658 Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-253) and index.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.
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Language: engPhysical Description: xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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