'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526-1635: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volu

by Ian Munro

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138383740
• ISBN13: 9781138383746
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"