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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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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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