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.
Автор: Heather C. Easterling, Jennifer Flaherty Название: The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play ISBN: 135021776X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350217768 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare’s problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play’s contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers.
Key themes and issues include:
· Gender and Power
· History and Early Modern Contexts
· Performance and Politics
· Adaptation and Afterlife
All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what’s exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.
Автор: Molekamp Femke Название: Women and the Bible in Early Modern England ISBN: 0199665400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199665402 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 20988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of English women`s religious reading and writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Автор: Espinosa Ruben Название: Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare`s England ISBN: 1409401162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409401162 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an approach to evaluating the psychological `loss` of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary`s demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in configurations of masculinity.
The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged.
How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts.
Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture.
The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.
Автор: Gutierrez, Nancy A. Название: `Shall She Famish Then?` ISBN: 1840142405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781840142402 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13779.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Twycross, Meg Название: Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England ISBN: 0754602303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754602309 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Richards, Jennifer Название: Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England ISBN: 041538527X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415385275 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Richards, Jennifer Название: Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England ISBN: 0415385261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415385268 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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