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280 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801440243
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2003
Description
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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280 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801440243
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2003
Description
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...