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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

Jennifer Panek
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Panek EAN: 9780521832717 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 540 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-14 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Jennifer Panek is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Panek EAN: 9780521832717 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 540 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-14 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Jennifer Panek is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

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