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.
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.
Ian Munro is Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the Claire Trevor School of Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA.
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Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory note; A C Mery Talys (1526); Walter Smith XII Mery Jests of the Wyddow Edyth (anonymous ed. 1573); T[homas] T[wyne] tr. [Mensa Philosophica] 'The fourth Booke of Table Philosophie' (sigs. O1-V2v) 'A Table contayning the principall matters' (sigs. V3-V4v) in The Schoolemaster or Teacher of Table Philosophie (1576); Anthony Copley tr. [Melchor de Santa Cruz] 'To the Right Honourable George Earle of Cvmberland (sig. A2-A2v) 'To the Gentleman Readers' (sig. A3) Dedicatory epistles; 'Of Love and Lovers' (sigs. K4-L2) 'Of Hvsbands and Wiving' (sigs. L2-L4) 'Of Women' (sigs. L4-M3v) 'Of Cvckolds' (sigs. M3v-M4v) in Wits Fittes and Fancies (1595); Westward for Smelts ... Written by Kinde Kit of Kingstone (1620); Pasqvils Iests: with the Merriments of Mother Bunch (1635); The Life of Long Meg of VVestminster (1635).
Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory note; A C Mery Talys (1526); Walter Smith XII Mery Jests of the Wyddow Edyth (anonymous ed. 1573); T[homas] T[wyne] tr. [Mensa Philosophica] 'The fourth Booke of Table Philosophie' (sigs. O1-V2v) 'A Table contayning the principall matters' (sigs. V3-V4v) in The Schoolemaster or Teacher of Table Philosophie (1576); Anthony Copley tr. [Melchor de Santa Cruz] 'To the Right Honourable George Earle of Cvmberland (sig. A2-A2v) 'To the Gentleman Readers' (sig. A3) Dedicatory epistles; 'Of Love and Lovers' (sigs. K4-L2) 'Of Hvsbands and Wiving' (sigs. L2-L4) 'Of Women' (sigs. L4-M3v) 'Of Cvckolds' (sigs. M3v-M4v) in Wits Fittes and Fancies (1595); Westward for Smelts ... Written by Kinde Kit of Kingstone (1620); Pasqvils Iests: with the Merriments of Mother Bunch (1635); The Life of Long Meg of VVestminster (1635).
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