Widows and suitors in early modern English comedy
by Jennifer Panek
"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 current 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
May 7, 2007, Cambridge University Press
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2004, Cambridge University Press
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