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  1. Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780511483868
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    RVK Categories: HI 1252
    Subjects: English drama / Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 / History and criticism; Widows in literature; English drama (Comedy) / History and criticism; Courtship in literature; Wiederverheiratung; Englisch; Witwe <Motiv>; Komödie
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    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

  2. Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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 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

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780511483868
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    RVK Categories: HI 1250
    Subjects: English drama (Comedy); Courtship in literature; Widows in literature; English drama; English drama ; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 ; History and criticism; Widows in literature; English drama (Comedy) ; History and criticism; Courtship in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 243 pages), digital, PDF file(s)
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  3. Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511483868
    RVK Categories: HI 1252 ; HI 1250
    Subjects: Literatur; Englisch; Witwe <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 243 pages)
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  4. Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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 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

     

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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511483868
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: HI 1250
    Subjects: English drama (Comedy); Courtship in literature; Widows in literature; English drama; English drama ; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 ; History and criticism; Widows in literature; English drama (Comedy) ; History and criticism; Courtship in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 243 pages), digital, PDF file(s)
    Notes:

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