Title: Better a shrew than a sheep : women, drama, and the culture of jest in early modern England /
Authors: Brown, Pamela Allen.
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: English drama History and criticism; Women and literature England History; Women and literature England History; English drama History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) History and criticism; English wit and humor History and criticism.; Jestbooks, English History.; Comic, The, in literature; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature
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.