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"The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the current critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
243

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Subjects

Courtship in literature English drama English drama (Comedy) History and criticism Widows in literature Dramatic criticism Literature, history and criticism Toneelstukken Engels Hofmakerij Weduwen

Times

Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
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Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
May 7, 2007, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2006, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2004, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
2004, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2004, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2004, Cambridge University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.

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Cambridge, UK, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.052309352654
Library of Congress
PR658.W53 P36 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 243 p. ;
Number of pages
243

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3438485M
ISBN 10
0521832713
LCCN
2005297391
OCLC/WorldCat
56965947, 56660576
LibraryThing
4872828
Goodreads
4781361

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Work ID
OL5859499W

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