 | Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- 17th century -- History and critici; 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... Pamela Allen Brown is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. |
