A Woman's Answer Is Never to Seek

A Woman's Answer Is Never to Seek Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526-1635 - The Early Modern Englishwoman : A Facsimile Library of Essential Works.

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Publisher's 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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Book information

ISBN: 9780754651703
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 828.30209287
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 725g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 31mm