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Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy // Jennifer Panek.
remainder title:	Widows & Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Author:	Panek, Jennifer,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English drama - History and criticism. - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483868
ISBN:	9780511483868 (ebook)

Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy /
Panek, Jennifer,

Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy /Widows & Suitors in Early Modern English ComedyJennifer Panek. - 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The widow's choice : female remarriage in early modern England -- The widow's threat : domestic government and male anxiety -- The suitor's fantasy : courtship and compensation -- The husband's fear : the lusty widow as wife -- A playwright's response : four Middletonian remarriage plots.

The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered.

ISBN: 9780511483868 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559694
English drama
--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

LC Class. No.: PR658.W53 / P36 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.052309352654

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