Author: George Charles Moore Smith
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Tom Tyler and His Wife ...
Author: George Charles Moore Smith
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Tom Tyler and His Wife E. 1551 (Kirkman)
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Tudor Facsimile Texts: Tom Tyler and his wife. 1912
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Pages : 120
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Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533)
Author: John Heywood
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Better a Shrew than a Sheep
Author: Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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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. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little access to popular culture because of their low literacy and social marginality, Brown demonstrates that women often bested all comers in the arenas of jesting, gaining a few heady moments of agency. Juxtaposing the literature of jest against court records, sermons, and conduct books, Brown employs a witty, entertaining style to propose that non-elite women used jests to test the limits of their subjection. She also shows how women's mocking laughter could function as a means of social control in closely watched neighborhoods. While official culture beatified the sheep-like wife and disciplined the scold, jesting culture often applauded the satiric shrew, whether her target was priest, cuckold, or rapist. Brown argues that listening for women's laughter can shed light on both the dramas of the street and those of the stage: plays from The Massacre of the Innocents to The Merry Wives of Windsor to The Woman's Prize taught audiences the importance of gossips' alliances as protection against slanderers, lechers, tyrants, and wife-beaters. Other jests, ballads, jigs, and plays show women reveling in tales of female roguery or scoffing at the perverse patience of Griselda. As Brown points out, some women found Griselda types annoying and even foolish: better be a shrew than a sheep.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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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. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little access to popular culture because of their low literacy and social marginality, Brown demonstrates that women often bested all comers in the arenas of jesting, gaining a few heady moments of agency. Juxtaposing the literature of jest against court records, sermons, and conduct books, Brown employs a witty, entertaining style to propose that non-elite women used jests to test the limits of their subjection. She also shows how women's mocking laughter could function as a means of social control in closely watched neighborhoods. While official culture beatified the sheep-like wife and disciplined the scold, jesting culture often applauded the satiric shrew, whether her target was priest, cuckold, or rapist. Brown argues that listening for women's laughter can shed light on both the dramas of the street and those of the stage: plays from The Massacre of the Innocents to The Merry Wives of Windsor to The Woman's Prize taught audiences the importance of gossips' alliances as protection against slanderers, lechers, tyrants, and wife-beaters. Other jests, ballads, jigs, and plays show women reveling in tales of female roguery or scoffing at the perverse patience of Griselda. As Brown points out, some women found Griselda types annoying and even foolish: better be a shrew than a sheep.
Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare, with an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius, and an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Drama by Richard Grant White
Author: Richard Grant White
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Pages : 450
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Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Richard Grant White
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258906X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. With an essay toward the expression of his genius, and an account of the rise and progress of the english drama.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258906X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. With an essay toward the expression of his genius, and an account of the rise and progress of the english drama.
The Philobiblion
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Pages : 308
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A Manual Fro the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays
Author: Hazlitt
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Pages : 308
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Pages : 308
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Old English Drama
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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