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'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, ... of Essential Works Series III, Part Two) - Hardcover

Book 2 of 4: The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two

Ian Munro

 
9780754651703: 'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, ... of Essential Works Series III, Part Two)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754651703 ISBN 13: 9780754651703
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself. Four have a direct connection to women through their jests and framing (Wyddow Edyth, VVestward for Smelts, Long Meg of VVestminster, and Pasqvils Iests), excerpts from two books specifically focus on women in some sections (The Schoolemaster and Wits Fittes and Fancies) and the volume also includes the extremely popular, general jestbook (A C. Mery Talys).

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About the Author

Ian Munro is Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the Claire Trevor School of Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754651703
ISBN 13 
9780754651703
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
392
Editor
Betty S. Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott