Better a Shrew than a Sheep by Pamela Allen Brown

Better a Shrew than a Sheep

Pamela Allen Brown

280 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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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. Disp...

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